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Falkner, Robert and Barry Buzan (eds.) (2022). Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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.

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REVIEWS

"Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan have gathered a sterling set of contributors—11 of 16 of which are women—to advance their arguments and build a compelling framework...[they offer] a more global yet focused approach that will help academics and policy-makers grapple with environmental issues beyond country-specific analyses...contributors explore the relationship between great power status, the management of global international society and the nature of great power responsibility...This level of conceptual clarity is a welcome addition to the IR literature... Falkner and Buzan provide a persuasive conceptual basis to understand the core challenges countries must overcome if equity and responsibility in international environmental policy are to be accepted and advanced by those with significant environmental great power." - Rebecca Peters, International Affairs

“… this fascinating and rich volume brings together a group of outstanding scholars to address an important set of questions for both IR and GEP scholarship. It opens up space to broaden and sharpen analyses of great green powers in the future, using the conceptual toolkit provided.” - Manjana Milkoreit, Perspectives on Politics

“Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities is a seminal work. It expertly delineates the concept of great environmental power, its positive and negative dimensions, and ensuing responsibilities. It has the potential to reposition global climate change from a sidelined issue to a central focus in foreign policy agendas.” - Burak Elmalı, LSE Blog

Falkner, Robert (2021). Environmentalism and Global International Society (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, vol. 156). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

ENVIRONMENTALISM AND GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY shows how environmental values and ideas have transformed the normative structure of international relations. It argues that environmental stewardship has become a universally accepted fundamental norm, or primary institution, of global international society. The book traces the history of environmentalism’s rise from a loose set of ideas originating in the 19th century to a globally applicable norm in the 20th century, which has come to redefine international legitimacy and states’ global responsibilities. It explores how this deep norm change came about as a result of the interplay between non-state and state actors, and how the new environmental norm has interacted with the existing primary institutions of global international society, most notably sovereignty and territoriality, diplomacy, international law, and the market. The book shifts the attention from the presentist focus in the study of global environmental politics to the longue durée of global norm change in the greening of international relations.

Paperback edition published in June 2022.

Shortlisted for the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize 2022.

REVIEWS

‘This book provides a masterful account of the distinctive vantage point of English School Theory in illuminating the long history of the norm of environmental stewardship and how it worked its way into the fundamental structure of international society. Falkner's long view of institutional change helps us to see how far international society has travelled.' — Robyn Eckersley - University of Melbourne

‘Falkner brilliantly demonstrates the transformational impact of environmental norms on international society and their centrality to international order in the 21st century. This volume also offers new ways to understand and analyze international society's inadequate response to ecological crises to date. A must read for anyone who wants to understand why and how transformations in global order occur.' — Steven Bernstein - University of Toronto

‘In Environmentalism and Global International Society, Robert Falkner, a leading theorist of the English School in international relations scholarship, offers a comprehensive account of global environmental politics through providing a detailed historical perspective on the emergence of environmental stewardship as an international norm up to the present. In debates often legitimately dominated by notions of the Anthropocene, planetary thinking, global climate disruption and ‘earth system' governance, Falkner offers a counternarrative that reminds us of the still relevant pluralistic ‘society of states' and the traditional ‘great powers'. Environmentalism and Global International Society is the central and most comprehensive reformulation of English School theory for the planetary socioecological crisis of our time.' — Frank Biermann - Utrecht University

‘… one of Falkner’s contributions is not only to have provided the first book-length [English School] account of Global Environmental Politics, but to have provided a really good introduction to how the ES theoretical and methodological approach works.’ — Matt Paterson, Perspectives of Politics

Falkner, Robert (ed.) (2013). The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (Wiley-Blackwell) - paperback edition published in September 2016.

The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of global policy on climate and the environment. It combines the strengths of an interdisciplinary team of experts from around the world to explore current debates and the latest thinking in the search for global environmental solutions.

REVIEWS:

“Falkner has successfully brought together top scholars from several disciplines in a single, important book that will interest policy makers and students for years to come.  Summing Up: Highly recommended.  All readership levels.”  — Choice, 1 January 2014

"This Handbook brings together world-leading scholars to analyze the political and economic challenges of climate change and global environmental policy. Expertly edited, it surveys the latest academic theories as well as provides groundbreaking research on the organizations, actors, and processes shaping global environmental politics." — Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia

Falkner, Robert (2008). Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics  (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) - paperback edition published in 2009.

How powerful is business in international environmental protection? Modern industrial sectors are often at the root of global environmental problems such as global warming and ozone layer depletion, but are they also the main source of inertia and obstruction that often hold back international efforts to save the environment? Does the limited success of the Kyoto Protocol process suggest that the fossil fuel industry and others can prevent effective climate action? On the other hand, what are we to make of cases such as the Montreal Protocol, which has helped to reverse the manmade trend towards ozone layer depletion? 
This book is the result of over ten years of research on international environmental politics. It puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, and provides detailed case studies of three of the most important environmental challenges in recent years: the protection of the ozone layer; the politics of global climate change; and the regulation of agricultural biotechnology.

REVIEWS:

'Robert Falkner's excellent book addresses a vitally important topic on which the literature is relatively under-developed.  His approach is radically different and directly engages existing explanations of the role of business in global environmental politics. This will certainly mean its appearance on reading lists!' - John Vogler, Professor of International relations, Keele University, UK 

'Falkner's contribution is to demonstrate how accounts of the considerable power and influence of business can remain strongly sensitive to the varied nature of business interests and the particularity of the political circumstances with which they are inevitably enmeshed.' - Dan Greenwood, International Affairs

Falkner, Robert (ed) (2007). The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).

Genetic engineering - the controversial technology that allows scientists to manipulate genes in living organisms and produce new plants and animals - is at the heart of an intense global conflict. The search for a working international regime on biosafety has been complicated by rising transatlantic and North-South tensions over the burgeoning trade in genetically modified (GM) crops. At stake are not just the environmental and health risks involved in the production of GM food, but also questions about whether international society is able to govern risky technologies in an era of economic globalization. 
This timely and comprehensive collection brings together experts from the fields of international relations, environmental studies, trade and international law to examine the sources of international friction and to explore the prospects for international cooperation, offering a provocative insight into the new politics of global governance.

REVIEWS:

'This is an outstanding collection of essays that makes a major contribution to both scholarship and to understanding public policy. I can think of no other volume that presents such as comprehensive, integrated analysis of the complex scientific, political , economic and legal dimensions of GMO policies. It is essential reading.' - David Vogel, George Quist Professor of Business Ethics and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, US

'This masterful collection explores every angle of this quintessentially global controversy... It is essential reading for teachers and students of global politics along with anyone wishing to improve their understanding of the complex global politics surrounding GM food.' - Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia 

'Overall, this collection gives a thorough view of the interests and strategies of the various actors and the main points of concern over GM Foods...This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the present and future governance of GM food.' Shane Mulligan, Political Studies Review 

'Overall, this is a skilfully assembled and judiciously structured collection...this volume probably represents the most inclusive work on the international politics of GM food to date. Both newcomers to this field and well-versed scholars need look no further for an admirably well-rounded analysis.' - Hannes Stephan, International Affairs 
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...a valuable resource for GMO sceptics and supporters alike. Both will find chapters that are factually reliable, analytically careful, and conceptually challenging.' - Robert Paarlberg, Journal of Commercial Biotechnology

Bail, Christoph, Robert Falkner and Helen Marquard (eds) (2002). The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment and Development? (London: RIIA/Earthscan).

Modern biotechnology - the controversial manipulation of genes in living organisms - has far-reaching implications for agriculture, human health, trade and the environment. Against the odds, an international treaty governing biosafety and trade in biotechnology was adopted in 2000. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety of the Convention on Biological Diversity deals with one of the most important and challenging issues thrown up by developments in biotechnology. This volume is a comprehensive review of the protocol and the process that led to its adoption. It includes contributions from many of the key players involved and analyses the commercial and political interests at stake, the operations and implications of the protocol, and prospects for the future.

REVIEWS:
'An excellent book and a highly entertaining and informative publication' - European Environmental Law Review

Falkner, Robert and Helmut Anheier, guest editors (2017). 'Europe and the world: Rethinking Europe’s external relations in an age of global turmoil', special issue of International Politics 54(4).

CONTENTS:
- Robert Falkner: “Rethinking Europe’s external relations in an age of global turmoil: An introduction”
- William C. Wohlforth and Vladislav M. Zubok: “An Abiding Antagonism: realism, idealism, and the mirage of western-Russian partnership after of the Cold War”
- Brian Burgoon, Tim Oliver and Peter Trubowitz: “Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Transatlantic Relations”
- Cilja Harders, Annette Jünemann and Lina Khatib: “Europe and the Arab world: Neighbours and uneasy partners in a highly conflictual context”
- E. Fuat Keyman: “Turkey’s Choice: Responding to Security Challenges through Humanitarian Norms with a Revitalized EU Anchor”
- Wiebke Rabe and Olivia Gippner: “Perceptions of China’s outward foreign direct investment in European critical infrastructure and strategic industries”
- Nathalie Tocci: “From the European Security Strategy to the EU Global Strategy: Explaining the Journey”
- Karen E. Smith: “A European Union global strategy for a changing world?”
- Tim Oliver: “Never mind the Brexit? Britain, Europe, the World and Brexit”

Anheier, Helmut and Robert Falkner, guest editors (2017), 'Europe and the World: Global Insecurity and Power Shifts', special issue of Global Policy 8(S4).

CONTENTS:
- Helmut K. Anheier & Robert Falkner - Europe Challenged: An Introduction to the Special Issue
- Michael Cox - Europe – Still between the Superpowers
- Daniela Schwarzer - Europe, the End of the West and Global Power Shifts
- Tobias Bunde & Wolfgang Ischinger - European Security Policy at the End of the Post-Cold War Era
- James M. Boughton, Domenico Lombardi & Anton Malkin - The Limits of Global Economic Governance after the 2007–09 International Financial Crisis
- Alanna Krolikowski -Brittle China? Economic and Political Fragility with Global Implications
- Linda Yueh -Britain’s Economic Outlook after Brexit
- Jörg Wuttke - The Dark Side of China’s Economic Rise 
- Kenneth Roth - Opening Remarks at the Dahrendorf Symposium 2016
- John M. Owen - Anti-liberalism Pushes Back
- Lisa Haferlach & Dilek Kurban - Lessons Learnt from the EU-Turkey Refugee Agreement in Guiding EU Migration Partnerships with Origin and Transit Countries
- Ahmed Abd Rabou - EU Policies towards Egypt: The Civil Security Paradox
- Marie Kortam - From Cognitive Environment to French Youth Engagement in Jihad
- Stephan Auer - Ten Global Challenges to Europe’s Foreign Policy – Concluding Remarks at the Dahrendorf Symposium 2016
- Jie Yu - After Brexit: Risks and Opportunities to EU–China Relations
- Monika Sus - Towards the European Union’s Foreign Policy 2025 – Taking Stock of the Dahrendorf Foresight Project

Falkner, Robert and Bernice Lee (guest eds.) (2012) 'Rio+20 and the Global Environment: Reflections on Theory and Practice', special issue of International Affairs 88:3.

CONTENTS:
'Introduction' - Robert Falkner and Bernice Lee
'Emerging powers, North–South relations and global climate politics' - Andrew Hurrell and Sandeep Sengupta
'International political economy and the environment: back to the basics?' - Jennifer Clapp and Eric Helleiner
'Global environmentalism and the greening of international society' - Robert Falkner
'Institutional diffusion in international environmental affairs' - Alexander Ovodenko and Robert O Keohane
'Engaging the public and the private in global sustainability governance' - Kenneth W Abbott
'Institutional design and UNEP reform: historical insights on form, function and financing' - Maria Ivanova
'Complex global governance and domestic policies: four pathways of influence' - Steven Bernstein and Benjamin Cashore
'The changing fortunes of differential treatment in the evolution of international environmental law' - Lavanya Rajamani