Global Warming and Global Politics

by Paterson,Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780415138727
• ISBN10: 0415138728
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-10-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Global warming has become established asthemajor environmental issue on the international political agenda. It is also commonly understood to be the most difficult politically to solve. The entrenched interests of powerful industrial corporations as well as those of many nation-states are severely threatened by attempts to implement reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Matthew Paterson provides the first systematic account of the politics of global warming. He examines the major theories within the discipline of international relations, and how they might be able to provide accounts of the emergence of global warming as a political issue, and of the negotiations leading up to the signing of the Framework Convention in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and beyond.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Historical Development of Climate on the International Agenda	p. 16
Before and After Rio	p. 49
The Politics Behind the Negotiations	p. 72
Anarchy, the State and Power	p. 91
Cooperation and Institutions	p. 114
Science, Politics and Global Warming	p. 134
A Political Economy of Global Warming	p. 157
Conclusions	p. 178
Notes	p. 186
Bibliography	p. 204
Index	p. 224
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