Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities

Robert Falkner · Barry Buzan

Jun 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Liam Gerrard

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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) and international institutions and issue areas (UN Security Council, multilateral environmental agreements, coal politics). The contributors 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 role great powers could and should play in the international fight against global warming.

About the author

Liam Gerrard is an award-winning voice artist with over ten years of experience working in every field of the voice industry, as well as a highly acclaimed stage and screen actor. A 2017 Audie Award nominee, he has narrated over thirty audiobooks in a wide range of genres and styles.

Robert Falkner is an associate professor of international relations and the research director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Barry Buzan is a fellow of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor in the LSE Department of International Relations, and a senior fellow at LSE IDEAS. His publications include Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation (coedited with Evelyn Goh) and The Making of Global International Relations (with Amitav Acharya).

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