articles and chapters
Falkner, Robert (2024), ‘The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations’, in: Global Environmental Politics, 24(1): 124-37. [link]
Buzan, Barry and Robert Falkner (2023), ‘La responsabilidad ambiental de las grandes potencias internacionales.’ in: Anuario Internacional CIDOB, pp. 55-64. [link]
Falkner, Robert (2023), ‘Weaponised Energy and Climate Change: Assessing Europe’s Response to the Ukraine War’, in: LSE Public Policy Review. 3(1): 10, 1-8. [link]
Buzan, Barry and Robert Falkner (2022), ‘The Market in Global International Society: A Dialectic of Contestation and Resilience’, in Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation, and Resilience, ed. by Trine Flockhart and Zachary Paikin, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 237–60.
Falkner, Robert, and Barry Buzan (2022). ‘Introduction‘, in: Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan (eds.). Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 3-13.
Buzan, Barry, and Robert Falkner (2022). ‘Great Powers and Environmental Responsibilities: A Conceptual Framework.’ in: Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan (eds.). Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 14-48.
Falkner, Robert, and Barry Buzan (2022). ‘Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Responsibilities: A Concluding Assessment‘, in: Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan (eds.). Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 279-89.
Falkner, Robert, Naghmeh Nasiritousi and Gunilla Reischl (2022). ‘Climate Clubs: Politically Feasible and Desirable?’ in: Climate Policy, (22)4: 480-87. [link]*
*Translated into Chinese and published in Foreign Theoretical Trends, June 2023.
Falkner, Robert (2020), ‘Global Environmental Responsibility in International Society’, in: The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics, ed. by Hannes Hansen-Magnusson and Antje Vetterlein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 101-24. [link]
Falkner, Robert (2019), ‘The Unavoidability of Justice - and Order - in International Climate Politics: From Kyoto to Paris and Beyond’, in: British Journal of Politics and International Relations, (21)2: 270-78 [link].
Falkner, Robert and Barry Buzan (2019), 'The Emergence of Environmental Stewardship as a Primary Institution of Global International Society', European Journal of International Relations, 25(1): 131-155 [link].*
*Winner of the 2018 ISA English School Section's Outstanding Research Paper in the 'Senior Scholar' category.
Chan, Sander, Robert Falkner, Matthew Goldberg and Harro van Asselt (2018), 'Effective and geographically balanced? An output-based assessment of non-state climate actions', in: Climate Policy, 18(1): 24-35.
Falkner, Robert (2018), ‘Climate change, political economy and global energy policy’, in: Handbook of International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources, ed. by Caroline Kuzemko, Andreas Goldthau and Michael F. Keating (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar), pp. 77-88.
Falkner, Robert (2017), ‘International Climate Politics between Solidarism and Pluralism: An English School Perspective’, in: Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics: International Relations and the Earth, ed. by Hayley Stevenson and Olaf Corry (London: Routledge), pp. 26-44.
Falkner, Robert (2017), 'Rethinking Europe's external relations in an age of global turmoil: an introduction', International Politics 54(4): 389-404. [link]
Falkner, Robert (2017), ‘The Anarchical Society and Climate Change’ in: The Anarchical Society at 40: Contemporary Challenges and Prospects, ed. by Hidemi Suganami, Madeline Carr and Adam Humphreys (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 198-215.
Falkner, Robert (2016) 'The Paris Agreement and the New Logic of International Climate Politics', in: International Affairs 92(5), pp. 1107–1125.*
*featured in: Peace Science Digest, Vol. 3, special issue “Climate Change, Security, and Conflict”.
Falkner, Robert (2016) 'A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change? On Bargaining Efficiency, Club Benefits and International Legitimacy', in: Perspectives on Politics, vol. 14, no 1, pp. 87-10.*
*reprinted in: Terhalle, Maximilian and Charlotte Streck (eds) (2017), The New Power Politics of Global Climate Governance. London: Routledge.
Breggin, Linda, Robert Falkner, Read Porter, John Pendergrass and Nico Jaspers (2016), "Addressing the Risks of Nanomaterials under United States and European Union Regulatory Frameworks for Chemicals", in: Assessing Nanoparticle Risks to Human Health, 2nd edition, edited by Gurumurthy Ramachandran (Waltham, MA: Elsevier Science), pp. 179-254.
Falkner, Robert (2014) 'Global Environmental Politics and Energy: Mapping the Research Agenda', in: Energy Research and Social Science, 1:1, pp. 188-97.
Falkner, Robert (2013) 'The Crisis of Environmental Multilateralism: A Liberal Response', in: The Green Book: New Directions for Liberals in Government, edited by Duncan Brack, Paul Burall, Neil Stockley and Mike Tuffrey (London: Biteback Publishing), pp. 347-58.
Falkner, Robert (2013) 'The Nation-State, International Society, and the Global Environment', in: The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy, edited by Robert Falkner (Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 251-67.
Jaspers, Nico, and Robert Falkner (2013) 'International Trade, the Environment, and Climate Change', in: The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy, edited by Robert Falkner (Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 412-427.
Falkner, Robert (2012) 'Global Environmentalism and the Greening of International Society', in: International Affairs, vol. 88, no. 3, pp. 503-22.
Falkner, Robert and Nico Jaspers (2012) 'Regulating Nanotechnologies: Risk, Uncertainty and the Global Governance Gap', in: Global Environmental Politics vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 30-55.
Falkner, Robert (2012) 'Business Power, Business Conflict: A Neo-Pluralist Perspective on International Environmental Politics', in Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, 2nd edition, edited by Peter Dauvergne (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), pp. 319-329.
Tienhaara, Kyla, Amandine Orsini and Robert Falkner (2012) 'Global Corporations', in Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered, edited by Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 45-67.
Busch, Per-Olof, Aarti Gupta and Robert Falkner (2012) 'International-Domestic Linkages and Policy Convergence', in Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered, edited by Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 199-218.
Porter, Read D. and Linda Breggin, Robert Falkner, John Pendergrass, Nico Jaspers (2012) 'Regulatory Responses to Scientific Uncertainty and Nanotechnology', in: The Nanotechnology Challenge: Creating Law and Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks, edited by D. Dana (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 379-415.
Falkner, Robert and Nico Jaspers (2012) 'Environmental Protection, International Trade and the WTO', in: The Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy, edited by Kenneth Heydon and Stephen Woolcock (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 245-60.
Breggin, Linda and Robert Falkner, Read Porter, John Pendergrass, Nico Jaspers (2011), "Addressing the Risks of Nanomaterials under United States and European Union Regulatory Frameworks for Chemicals", in: Assessing Nanoparticle Risks to Human Health, edited by Gurumurthy Ramachandran (Waltham, MA: Elsevier Science), pp. 195-272.
Falkner, Robert, Hannes Stephan and John Vogler (2010) 'International Climate Policy After Copenhagen: Towards a 'Building Blocks' Approach', in: Global Policy, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 252-62.*
* reprinted in The Governance of Climate Change: Science, Economic, Politics & Ethics. Edited by David Held, Angus Hervey, and Marika Theros (Cambridge: Polity, 2011).
Falkner, Robert (2010) 'Business and Global Climate Governance: A Neo-Pluralist Perspective', in Business and Global Governance, ed. by Morten Ougaard and Anna Leander (London: Routledge), pp. 99-117.
Falkner, Robert, Linda Breggin, Nico Jaspers, John Pendergrass and Read Porter (2010) 'International coordination and cooperation: the next agenda in nanomaterials regulation', in: International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies, ed. by Graeme A. Hodge, Diana M. Bowman and Andrew D. Maynard (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar), pp. 508-524.
Falkner, Robert and Aarti Gupta (2009) 'The limits of regulatory convergence: globalization and GMO politics in the South', International Environmental Agreements, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 113-133.
Falkner, Robert (2009) 'The Troubled Birth of the "Biotech Century": Global Corporate Power and Its Limits', in: Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance, ed. by Jennifer Clapp and Doris Fuchs (Cambridge, MA, MIT Press), pp. 225-252.
Falkner, Robert (2009) 'The Global Politics of Precaution: Explaining International Cooperation on Biosafety', in: Cooperating Without America: Theories and Case Studies of Non-hegemonic Regimes, ed. by Stefan Brem and Ken Stiles (London: Routledge), pp.105-122.
Falkner, Robert (2008) 'Oelmultis als transnationale Akteure: Grundlagen und Grenzen globaler Firmenmacht', in: Weltvertraegliche Energiesicherheitspolitik. Jahrbuch Internationale Politik 2005/2006, ed. by Josef Braml et al. (Muenchen: Oldenbourg Verlag), pp. 345-349.
Falkner, Robert (2007) 'The Political Economy of 'Normative Power' Europe: EU Environmental Leadership in International Biotechnology Regulation', in: Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 507-526.
Falkner, Robert (2007) 'The Global Biotech Food Fight: Why the United States Got It So Wrong', in: Brown Journal of World Affairs 14(1), Fall/Winter: 99-110.
Falkner, Robert (2007) 'International Cooperation Against the Hegemon: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety', in: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law, ed. by Robert Falkner (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 15-33.
Falkner, Robert (2007) 'Internationalising Biotechnology Policy in China', in: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law, ed. by Robert Falkner (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 174-191.
Falkner, Robert (2006) 'International Sources of Environmental Policy Change in China: The Case of Genetically Modified Food', in: The Pacific Review, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 473-94.
Gupta, Aarti and Robert Falkner (2006) 'The Influence of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa', in: Global Environmental Politics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 23-55.
Falkner, Robert (2005) 'American Hegemony and the Global Environment', in: International Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 585-99.
Falkner, Robert (2005) 'The Business of Ozone Layer Protection: Corporate Power in Regime Evolution.' In: The Business of Global Environmental Governance, ed. by David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 105-134.
Falkner, Robert (2004) 'The First Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety', in: Environmental Politics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 635-641.
Falkner, Robert (2004) 'Trading Food: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Organisms.' In: Trade Politics, 2nd edition. Ed. by Brian Hocking and Steve McGuire (London: Routledge), pp. 249-260.
Falkner, Robert (2003) 'Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links', in: Global Environmental Politics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 72-87.*
* selected for MIT Press's '50 Influential Journal Articles' anniversary celebration list.
*reprinted in The Globalization and Environment Reader, edited by Peter Newell and J. Timmons Roberts, Wiley-Blackwell 2016.
* reprinted in The Library of Essays in International Relations: International Environmental Governance, edited by Peter M. Haas (Ashgate, 2008).
Falkner, Robert (2003) 'Adam Smith's Political Liberalism.' In: Von himmlischer Ordnung und weltlichen Problemen: Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Peter J. Opitz. edited by Mir A. Ferdowsi, Dietmar Herz and Marc Schattenmann (Munich: Wilhelm Fink), pp. 133-158.
Falkner, Robert (2002) 'Negotiating the Biosafety Protocol: The International Process.' In: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment and Development?, edited by Christoph Bail, Robert Falkner and Helen Marquard (London: RIIA/Earthscan), pp. 3-22.
Falkner, Robert (2002) 'Umwelt.' In: Die Vereinten Nationen: Entwicklung, Aktivitaeten, Perspektiven, edited by Dietmar Herz, Christian Jetzlsperger and Marc Schattenmann (Frankfurt/M.: Fischer), pp. 163-186.
Falkner, Robert (2001) 'Business Conflict and U.S. International Environmental Policy: Ozone, Climate, and Biodiversity', in: The Environment, International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy, edited by Paul G. Harris (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press), pp. 157-177.
Falkner, Robert (2001) 'Genetic Seeds of Discord: The Transatlantic GMO Trade Conflict after the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.' in: Governing Food: Science, Safety and Trade, edited by Peter W.B. Phillips and Robert Wolfe (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press), pp. 149-161.
Falkner, Robert (2000) 'Regulating Biotech Trade: the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety', in: International Affairs, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 299-313.
Falkner, Robert (2000) 'International Trade Conflicts over Agricultural Biotechnology.' In: The International Politics of Biotechnology: Investigating Global Futures, edited by Alan Russell and John Vogler (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp.142-156.
Falkner, Robert (1998) 'The Multilateral Ozone Fund of the Montreal Protocol', in: Global Environmental Change, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 171-175.
Falkner, Robert (1991) “Umweltzerstörung und ökonomische Entwickung in der Dritten Welt - ein Verteilungsproblem.” Vierteljahresberichte: Probleme der internationalen Zusammenarbeit, December, pp. 393-407.
Reports
UK Economic Diplomacy in the 21st Century. The LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission Final Report. Published 9 February 2021. Find out more about the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission here.
Falkner, Robert (2010). Contribution to The Oil Crunch: A Wake-Up Call for the UK Economy. Second report of the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil & Energy Security (ITPOES), February 2010, pp. 27-30. [download]
Breggin, Linda, Robert Falkner, Nico Jaspers, John Pendergrass and Read Porter (2009). Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies: Towards Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation. Report. (London: Chatham House, September), 120 pages. [download]
Working papers, reviews & other publications
Book review: Change in Global Environmental Politics: Temporal Focal Points and the Reform of International Institutions. By Michael W. Manulak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. - Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World. By Charles F. Sabel and David G. Victor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. in: Perspectives on Politics, 21(2), June 2023: pp. 779-781. [link].
Book review: Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy: 15 Contentious Questions, by Benjamin J. Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown and Scott V. Valentine. LSE Review of Books, March 2017. [link]
Chan, Sander, Robert Falkner, Harro van Asselt and Matthew Goldberg (2015) 'Strengthening non-state climate action: a progress assessment of commitments launched at the 2014 UN Climate Summit', Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Working Paper No. 242, London School of Economics, November. [download]
Falkner, Robert (2015) 'A minilateral solution for global climate change? On bargaining efficiency, club benefits and international legitimacy', CCCEP and Grantham Research Institute working paper 197. [download]
Falkner, Robert (2015) 'International Negotiations: Towards Minilateralism', Nature Climate Change, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 805-6. [link]
Falkner, Robert (2015) 'Book Review: 'Greening the Globe: World Society and Environmental Change' by Ann Hironaka' American Journal of Sociology 121(3): 976-8.
'Global Governance - The Rise of Non-state Actors'. A Background Report for the SOER 2010 Assessment of global megatrends. EEA Technical Report 4/2011. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency. [download]
Falkner, Robert (2010), 'Globalisation, Neopluralism and Multinodal Politics' (review of Rethinking World Politics: A Theory of Transnational Neopluralism, by Phil Cerny) in Journal of Power, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 452-8. [download]
Pendergrass, John, with Linda Breggin, Robert Falkner, Nico Jaspers, and Read Porter (2010) 'Consumer Labeling of Nanomaterials in the European Union and the United States', Environmental Law Review, February, 10117-8. [download]
Falkner, Robert (2010), 'Getting a Deal on Climate Change: Obama's Flexible Multilateralism', in: Obama Nation? US Foreign Policy One Year On, ed by Nicholas Kitchen (LSE IDEAS Special Report, January), pp. 37-41. [download]
Falkner, Robert, Linda Breggin, Nico Jaspers, John Pendergrass and Read Porter (2009). Consumer Labelling of Nanomaterials in the EU and US: Convergence or Divergence? EERG Briefing Paper 2009/03 (London: Chatham House, October), 12 pages. [download]
Falkner, Robert, Linda Breggin, Nico Jaspers, John Pendergrass and Read Porter (2009). Regulating Nanomaterials: A Transatlantic Agenda, EERG Briefing Paper 2009/02 (London: Chatham House), 8 pages. [download].
Falkner, Robert (2006) 'The European Union as a 'Green Normative Power'? EU Leadership in International Biotechnology Regulation', Center for European Studies Working Paper Series #140, Harvard University, November. [download]
Gupta, Aarti and Robert Falkner (2006) 'The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Domestic Implementation: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa' EEDP Briefing Paper 06/01 (London: Chatham House, March). [download]
Falkner, Robert and Aarti Gupta (2004) 'Implementing the Biosafety Protocol: Key Challenges.' Briefing Paper (London: Chatham House, November). [download]
Brack, Duncan, Robert Falkner and Judith Goll (2003) 'The Next Trade War? GM Products, the Cartagena Protocol and the WTO.' Briefing Paper No. 8 (London: Chatham House, September). [download]