International relations and global climate change / edited by Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I Introduction -- 1. Problems of global environmental cooperation / Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz -- 2. The history of the global climate change regime / Daniel Bodansky -- Pt. II Regime creation : concepts and theories -- 3. Classical theories of international relations / Ian H. Rowlands -- 4. Domestic politics and global climate policy / Detlef F. Sprinz and Martin Weifs -- 5. Nonstate actors in the global climate regime / Kal Raustiala -- 6. Principles of justice in the context of global climate change / Matthew Paterson -- Climate change, equity, and international negotiations / Ellen Wiegandt -- Pt. III Regime creation : methods -- 8. Modeling global climate negotiations / Frank Grundig, hugh Ward, and Ethan P. Zorick -- 9. Simulation models, global environmental change, and policy / Urs Luterbacher -- Pt. IV Regime design : implementation, compliance, and effectiveness -- 10. International law and the design of a climate change regime / Daniel Bodansky -- 11. Institutional aspects of implementation, compliance, and effectiveness / Ronald B. Mitchell. -- Pt. V The Global climate change regime in the international regulatory domain : comparisons and conclusions -- 12. Comparing the global climate regime with other global environmental accords / Detlef F. Sprinz -- 13. The Organization of world trade and the climate regime / Urs Luterbacher and Carla Norrlöf -- Conclusions / Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

"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." -- BACK COVER