Climate Change and American Foreign Policy
Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the world. The role played by the United States may determine our collective future. Newly availab.e in paperback, Climate change and American Foreign Policy examines the actors, institutions, and ideas shapi
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Edited by Paul G. Harris
Palgrave Macmillan
CLIMATE CHANGE AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
Copyright © Paul G. Harris, 2000. All rights reserved. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000 978-0-312-23341-9 No part of this book may be used or reprodueed in any manner whatsoever without written perrnission exeept in the ease of brief quotations embodied in eritieal articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y. 10010. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publieation Data Climate ehange and ameriean foreign poliey / edited by Paul G. Harris. p.em. Includes bibliographical referenees and index. ISBN 978-1-349-62980-0 ISBN 978-1-349-62978-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-62978-7
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Contents
Contributors
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Priface I
Introduetion
Chapter 1
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Climate Change and Foreign Poliey: An Introduetion -Paul G. Harris
3
Critiquing V.S. Clintate Change Poliey
Chapter 2 Chapter 3
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Climate Change: Is the United States Sharing the Burden?-Paul G. Harris
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Upholding the "Island of High Modernity": The Changing Climate of Arneriean Foreign Poliey -Peter Doran
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Polities of V.S. Clintate Change Poliey
Chapter 4
Chapter 5 Chapter 6
Governing Climate Change Poliey: From Seientifie Obseurity to Foreign Poliey Prominenee -Jacob Park
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From the Inside Out: Domestie Influenees on Global Environmental Poliey-Neil E. Harrison
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Congress and the Polities of Climate Change -Gary Bryner
111
Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9
IV
Regulation Theory and Climate Change Policy -Andreas Missbach
131
International Policy Instrument Prominence in the Climate Change Debate-Karen Fisher- Vcmden
151
Regime Effectiveness,Joint Implementation, and Climate Change Policy-Jotge Antunes
177
International Nonns and V.S. Clim.ate Change Poliey
Chapter 10
The United States and the Evolution of International Climate Change Norms-Michele M. Betsill 205
Chapter 11
International Norms of Responsibility and U.S. Climate Change Policy-Paul G. Harris
225
Notes
241
Index
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Contributors
is an independent researcher based in Portugal. He received his M.Phil. in Environment and Development from Cambridge University.
JORGE ANTUNES
M. BETSILL is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado State University, and arecent postdoctoral fellow in the Global Environmental Assessment Project at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Her research on global environmental politics focuses on climate change.
MICHELE
GARY BRYNER is Research Professor of Law and Director of the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado School of Law. He is the author of Blue Skies, Green Polities: The Clean Air Act cif 1990 and Its
Implementation; From Promises to Peiformanee: Aehieving Global Environmental Goals; and, with Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer, Envi
