Environmentalism and Global International Society
Environmentalism and Global International Society
Environmentalism and Global International Society reveals how environmental values and ideas have transformed the normative structure of international relations. Falkner argues that environmental stewardship has become a universally accepted fundamental norm, or primary institution, of global international society. He traces the history of environmentalism's rise from a loose set of ideas originating in the nineteenth century to a globally applicable norm in the twentieth century, which has come to redefine international legitimacy and states' global responsibilities. He shows 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. This 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.
- Traces the origins and rise of global environmentalism in international politics
- Provides a novel theoretical approach and conceptual toolkit for those interested in the long-term development of global environmental norms and institutions
- Will appeal to those who want to explore the interconnections between global environmental politics and other international policy fields
Reviews & endorsements
‘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
‘… recommended reading for scholars who want to develop a comprehensive understanding of the development of environmental stewardship as an international norm from the late 19th until the early 21st century.’ Lisanne Groen, The International Spectator
Product details
July 2021Hardback
9781108833011
320 pages
236 × 158 × 26 mm
0.678kg
1 table
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: The Greening of Global International Society
- Part I. Theory:
- 2. English School Theory and Global Environmental Politics
- 3. The Idea of Environmentalism
- Part II. History:
- 4. The Origins of Global Environmentalism
- 5. The Emergence of Environmental Stewardship as a Primary Institution
- 6. The Globalisation of Environmental Stewardship
- 7. Environmental Stewardship between Consolidation and Contestation
- Part III. Analytical Perspectives:
- 8. Solidarist Ambition
- 9. Pluralist Constraints
- 10. World Society to the Rescue?
- Part IV. Conclusions:
- 11. Conclusions: International Relations in the Anthropocene.
