ABSTRACT

How can a divided world share a single planet? As the environment rises ever higher on the global agenda, the discipline of International Relations (IR) is engaging in more varied and transformative ways than ever before to overcome environmental challenges.

Focusing in particular on the key trends of the past 20 years, this volume explores the main developments in the global environmental crisis, with each chapter considering an environmental issue and an approach within IR. In the process, adjacent fields including energy politics, science and technology, and political economy are also touched on.

Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics is aimed at anybody interested in the key international environmental problems of the day, and those seeking clarification and inspiration in terms of approaches and theories that decode how the environment is accounted for in global politics. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of global environmental politics and governance, environmental studies and IR.

chapter 1|25 pages

IR and the Earth

Societal multiplicity and planetary singularity

chapter 2|19 pages

International climate politics between pluralism and solidarism

An English School perspective

chapter 3|18 pages

Problematising the unitary actor assumption in IR

Insights from the climate change literature

chapter 4|18 pages

Green states and global environmental politics

Beyond Western IR?

chapter 6|20 pages

Post-humanism and geoengineering

chapter 7|16 pages

Justice discourses and the global environment

Diverse perspectives on an uneven landscape

chapter 9|17 pages

Security politics and climate change

The new security dilemma