Introduction: The greening of global international society -- Part I. Theory. English school theory and global environmental politics -- The idea of environmentalism -- Part II. History. The origins of global environmentalism -- The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution -- The globalisation of environmental stewardship -- Environmental stewardship between consolidation and contestation -- Part III. Analytical perspectives. Solidarist ambition -- Pluralist constraints -- World society to the rescue? -- Part IV. Conclusions. Conclusions: International relations in the anthropocene
Summary
"Environmentalism and Global International Society show how environmental ideas have transformed the normative structure of international relations. Falkner argues that the norm of environmental stewardship has become a universally accepted primary institution of international society. The book traces the long history of environmentalism's rise from a loose set of ideas originating in the nineteenth century to redefining international legitimacy and international society's global responsibilities by the late twentieth century. It demonstrates how this deep norm change came about as a result of the interaction 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. The book shifts the attention in the study of global environmental politics from its presentist focus to the longue durée of the gradual greening of international relations"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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