The Greening of U.S. Foreign Policy

by Anderson, Terry L.; Miller, MD, Henry I.

• ISBN13: 9780817998622
• ISBN10: 0817998624
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

In 1996 the U.S. government announced an increased emphasis on environmental issues in its foreign affairs. Since then "green" foreign policy has become a threat to national sovereignty without improving environmental quality. This collection of essays takes a hard look at how environmental concerns have come to help determine U.S. foreign policy—and the dangers that this poses.

Author Biography

Terry Anderson, the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the executive director of PERC - the Property and Environment Research Center, a think tank focusing on market solutions to environmental problems located in Bozeman, Montana, and professor emeritus at Montana State University. Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D., is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research focuses on public policy toward science and technology, especially pharmaceutical development and the new biotechnology. His work often emphasizes the excessive costs of government regulation and models for regulatory reform.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: The Green Hand of Foreign Policy	ix
Terry L. Anderson
The Value of Sovereignty and the Costs of Global Environmentalism	1	(30)
Jeremy Rabkin
Environmentalism, the Transformation of International Law, and the Pursuit of Political Objectives	31	(10)
Fernand Keuleneer
Green Creep: The Increasing Influence of Environmentalism in U.S. Foreign Policy	41	(74)
Brett D. Schaefer
U.S. International Efforts, Sustainable Development, and the Precautionary Principle	115	(28)
John J. Cohrssen
Sustainable Development: The Green Road to Serfdom?	143	(24)
James M. Sheehan
The War Against Warming: Climate Change, Kyoto, and American National Security	167	(28)
Jeffrey Salmon
Bootleggers, Baptists, and Global Warming	195	(26)
Bruce Yandle
Biotechnology Regulation and Foreign Policy: Eccentric Environmentalism Instead of Sound Science	221	(46)
Henry I. Miller
Bucking the Tide of Globalism: Developing Property Rights from the Ground Up	249
Terry L. Anderson
International Environmental Agreements: Developing Another Path	267	(36)
Julian Morris
Contributors	303	(2)
Conference Agenda	305	(2)
Index	307