The EU as international environmental negotiator

Delreux examines how the EU functions when it participates in international environmental negotiations. In particular, this book looks at the internal EU decision-making process with regard to international negotiations that lead to multilateral environmental agreements. By studying eight such decision-making processes, the book explains how ...

Global energy governance in a multipolar world

Multipolar governance permits a number of important states to have significantly more economic and political clout than others, but among them there is hardly any hierarchy. The new energy challenge, with its intricate socio-economic, ecological and international-political considerations, is a multi-dimensional, multi-level and multi-actor issue ...

Environmental skepticism

ecology, power and public life

Concentrated power in world politics is made up of ideas and supporting material resources and institutions. The material resources all come from nature, yet ecology is usually underappreciated in international relations as a source of power. Powerful countries control resources, economic elites command value in ...

Hard choices, soft Law

voluntary standards in global trade, environment and social governance

An important read for academics and policy-makers alike, Hard Choices, Soft Law asserts that voluntary standards, or 'soft' law, are an important supplement to international law in a number of areas. This key work firstly outlines the approach taken to combining soft and hard law ...