Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities
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Author Description
This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the environmental field, and what their special environmental responsibilities are. In doing so, the book connects International Relations (IR) debates on power inequality, great powers and great power management, with global environmental politics (GEP) scholarship. The book brings together leading scholars in IR and GEP whose contributions focus on major environmental powers (United States, China, European Union, India, Brazil, Russia) and international institutions and issue areas (UN Security Council, multilateral environmental agreements, international climate leadership, coal politics). The contributors to this volume examine how individual great powers have responded to the global climate challenge and whether they have accepted a special responsibility for stabilizing the global climate. They place emerging discourses on great power responsibility in the context of wider debates about international environmental leadership and climate change securitization. And they provide new insights into how international power inequality intersects with the global ecological crisis, and what special role great powers could and should play in the international fight against global warming.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This book investigates how the concept of 'great power' status applies to the international politics of climate change and what specific environmental responsibilities these nations hold. The authors, a collective of leading scholars in International Relations and Global Environmental Politics, construct a novel analytical framework to evaluate how power inequality influences global ecological governance. By synthesizing IR theories on power management with environmental scholarship, the text assesses whether major global actors accept or reject their roles in stabilizing the climate.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Analysis of major environmental powers including the United States, China, the European Union, India, Brazil, and Russia.
- Examination of international institutions such as the UN Security Council and multilateral environmental agreements.
- Discussion of climate change securitization and the discourse surrounding international environmental leadership.
Scope Limits
- The text focuses primarily on state-level actors and major powers, excluding detailed analysis of smaller developing nations or non-state grassroots movements.
- It does not provide a technical manual for climate mitigation strategies but rather focuses on the political and diplomatic dimensions of environmental responsibility.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts identify this volume as a foundational text for bridging the gap between traditional power politics and contemporary environmental studies. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which makes it a suitable resource for graduate-level research in international relations.
Page Count:
321
Publication Date:
2022-01-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
ISBN-10:
0192635735
ISBN-13:
9780192635730
Climate Change
International relations
Public Policy