| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 512 pages) |
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Diplomatic studies ; volume 17 |
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Diplomatic studies ; v. 17.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 "God, Guns and Green Growth: Narratives and Coalitions in European embassies' Climate Diplomacy in the USA and China" -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Climate Change and Diplomacy -- 1 Globalisation in Diplomacy Studies: New Actors, New Issues -- 1.1 "Diplomacy Means Business": Multinational Corporations and Diplomats -- 1.2 Paradiplomacy & Public Diplomacy -- 1.3 Domestic Parliaments and Environmental Negotiations -- 1.4 European Diplomacy -- 2 Evaluation of Diplomacy Effectiveness -- 3 Critical Perspectives on Climate Diplomacy |
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3.1 The Epistemic Community of Diplomats Construct Meanings -- 3.2 Gramscian Views of Hegemony -- and the Role of Diplomacy in This Hegemony -- 3.3 Diplomats in Advanced Liberal Governmentality -- 3.4 Depoliticisation through Signifiers -- Laclau and Mouffe -- 3.5 Implications for Climate Diplomacy: "Everything Can Stay as Before" -- 3.5.1 Corporations Key to Explain International Climate Regime We Have -- 3.5.2 Green Capitalism and Simulative Politics -- 3.5.3 Ecological Modernisation and Greentech -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Ministerial Structures Impacting Climate Diplomacy |
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1 Germany -- 1.1 Environmental Diplomacy and the Auswärtiges Amt (AA) -- 1.2 Other Ministries: Ministry of Environment (BMU) and Trade Ministry (BMWi) -- 1.3 German-British Climate Diplomatic Collaboration -- 2 United Kingdom -- 2.1 Environmental Diplomacy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) -- Part I: 1990s and Early 2000s -- 2.2 Other Ministries: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) |
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2.3 Environmental Diplomacy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office -- Part II: Late 2000s -- 2.4 Special Programme Funds -- 3 Denmark -- 3.1 Environmental Diplomacy and the Udenrigsministeriet -- 3.2 Denmark's Climate and Energy Ministry and CoP15 -- 4 Sweden -- 4.1 Environmental Diplomacy and the Utrikesdepartementet -- 4.2 Other Ministries: Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy & Communications and Agencies -- Notes -- Chapter 4 European Climate Diplomacy in China -- 1 China's Climate Policy and the Overall Focus of European Embassies |
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2 Partners and Targets of the Embassies -- 2.1 National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) -- 2.2 Government Think Tanks -- 2.3 NGOs -- 2.4 Embassies vs. Development Agencies: China Council for International Cooperation on Environment & Development (CCICED) -- 3 European Embassies and Their Diplomatic Strategies -- 4 Sweden -- 4.1 Discursive Strategy: Eco-Cities -- 4.2 Swedish Eco-City Projects in China: Effectiveness of the Swedish Example Narrative -- 4.3 Conclusion: Sweden -- 5 Denmark |
| Summary |
"Buchmann analyses the work of UK, German, Danish and Swedish embassies in the USA and China on climate change in the late 2000s and early 2010s. She relates which coalitions and narratives embassies sought to develop to convince China and the United States that a more progressive climate policy was possible, to achieve gains supporting an agreement under the UNFCCC. This book shows that a key interpretation of climate diplomacy was selling/trade: Europe selling technology "solutions" to solve climate change. In this narrative, Europe has already done what needs to be done and outsourcing of production to China e.g. is ignored. In the USA, embassies entered coalitions with states, faith groups and the military, arguing that a more progressive climate policy was mandated by either God or security concerns. State politicians, including Democrats, often actually didn't implement any climate policies. Any gains were reversed through climate denial lobbying funded by corporations. Embassies did not address this"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 08, 2022) |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Europe
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Climatic changes -- Government policy -- United States
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Climatic changes -- Government policy -- China
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Climate change mitigation -- International cooperation
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Climatic changes -- Government policy
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China
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Europe
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022007646 |
| ISBN |
9789004368156 |
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9004368159 |
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