International relations have long focused on managing conflict and competition. The result is
a virtual obsession with power and leadership, categories which are largely meaningless for …

Over the past three decades, climate change has moved from being a minor, mostly
scientific, matter in the affairs of states to being a prominent, frontburner foreign policy …

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of this century. Increasing evidence of the
impacts of climate change and that human actions are contributing to changes in climate …

F or many years, climate change was a technical issue that only concerned a small number
of scientists and policymakers. 1 At the 1988 Toronto Conference on the Changing …

Climate change is now a mainstream part of the international political agenda. It has
become clear that it is not solely a technical issue, to be resolved by scientists, but a political …

This chapter aims to reveal some of the complexity of the problem while also shedding light
on several major and recurring attributes of the problem. It summarizes some of the scientific …

Climate change politics in the United States clearly illustrates the importance of how an
issue is framed. For many years under the George W. Bush administration, dominant actors …

Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West and its companion
volume, Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, examine and …

The United States chose an approach to global warming that came to be viewed by much of
the international community as a barrier to effective action. In explaining why, this article …

The engagement of the United States is critical to the success of any international effort
against global climate change. Although international climate efforts require long-lasting …