International Relations and Global Climate Change

by Luterbacher, Urs; Sprinz, Detlef F.

• ISBN13: 9780262621496
• ISBN10: 0262621495
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-26
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

This book surveys current conceptual, theoretical, and methodological approaches to global climate change and international relations. Although it focuses on the role of states, it also examines the role of nonstate actors and international organizations whenever state-centric explanations are insufficient. The book begins with a discussion of environmental constraints on human activities, the environmental consequences of human activities, and the history of global climate change cooperation. It then moves to an analysis of the global climate regime from various conceptual and theoretical perspectives. These include realism and neorealism, historical materialism, neoliberal institutionalism and regime theory, and epistemic community and cognitive approaches. Stressing the role of nonstate actors, the book looks at the importance of the domestic-international relationship in negotiations on climate change. It then looks at game-theoretical and simulation approaches to the politics of global climate change. It emphasizes questions of equity and the legal difficulties of implementing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It concludes with a discussion of global climate change and other aspects of international relations, including other global environmental accords and world trade. The book also contains Internet references to major relevant documents.

Author Biography

Urs Luterbacher is Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Environmental Studies and the Centre for Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Detlef F. Sprinz is Professor at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Potsdam.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
I Introduction	1	(40)
Problems of Global Environmental Cooperation	3	(20)
Urs Luterbacher
Detlef F. Sprinz
The History of the Global Climate Change Regime	23	(18)
Daniel Bodansky
II Regime Creation: Concepts and Theories	41	(110)
Classical Theories of International Relations	43	(24)
Ian H. Rowlands
Domestic Politics and Global Climate Policy	67	(28)
Detlef F. Sprinz
Martin Weib
Nonstate Actors in the Global Climate Regime	95	(24)
Kal Raustiala
Principles of Justice in the Context of Global Climate Change	119	(8)
Matthew Paterson
Climate Change, Equity, and International Negotiations	127	(24)
Ellen Wiegandt
III Regime Creation: Methods	151	(48)
Modeling Global Climate Negotiations	153	(30)
Frank Grundig
Hugh Ward
Ethan P. Zorick
Simulation Models, Global Environmental Change, and Policy	183	(16)
Urs Luterbacher
IV Regime Design: Implementation, Compliance, and Effectiveness	199	(46)
International Law and the Design of a Climate Change Regime	201	(20)
Daniel Bodansky
Institutional Aspects of Implementation, Compliance, and Effectiveness	221	(24)
Ronald B. Mitchell
V The Global Climate Change Regime in the International Regulatory Domain: Comparisons and Conclusions	245	(64)
Comparing the Global Climate Regime with Other Global Environmental Accords	247	(32)
Detlef F. Sprinz
The Organization of World Trade and the Climate Regime	279	(18)
Urs Luterbacher
Carla Norrlof
Conclusions	297	(12)
Urs Luterbacher
Detlef F. Sprinz
Appendix	309	(2)
References	311	(28)
Index	339