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Europe and global climate change : politics, foreign policy and regional cooperation

The core objective of this book it to better understand the role of foreign policy the crossovers and interactions between domestic and international politics and policies in efforts to preserve the environment and natural resources. Underlying this objective is the belief that it is not enough to analyze domestic or international political actors, institutions and processes by themselves. We need to understand the interactions among them, something that explicit thought about foreign policy can help us do
eBook, English, ©2007
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, ©2007
1 online resource (xviii, 415 pages) : illustrations
9781847204264, 9781845429447, 1847204260, 1845429443
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Europe and Global Climate Change; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations and acronyms; 1. Europe and the politics and foreign policy of global climate change; 2. The politics of climate change in Germany: domestic sources of environmental foreign policy; 3. The indispensable awkward partner: the United Kingdom in European climate policy; 4. Middle power leadership in the climate change negotiations: foreign policy of the Netherlands; 5. Climatic issues in Polish foreign policy; 6. Sweden, climate change and the EU context