Add to ORKGThe United States entered the 21st century actively pursuing a “go-it-alone” approach to international relations. This is especially the case in global environmental affairs, where the United States is now widely perceived as a laggard and even an obstacle to collective action. Yet, the United States was the prime proponent and creator of international environmental organizations in the 1970s. In this article, we analyze the U.S. role in global environmental governance from a historical perspective and present a platform for U.S. re-engagement. We contend that the new U.S. Administration should re-examine its strategy towards global environmental concerns and reinstate a commitment to multilateralism as well as to playing a leadership role
In the last thirty years, the study of international environmental politics has grown amongst a vas...
Non-governmental organizations play an increasingly important role in the formation and implementati...
In the following excerpt from his book Earth in the Balance, Vice President-elect Gore describes wha...
For more than a century, the United States has taken the lead in organizing international responses ...
This chapter examines how US foreign policy on environmental issues has evolved over a period of nea...
Over the period 2000 to 2008, the United States maintained a largely hos-tile posture toward multila...
When environmental issues emerged on the international agenda in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the...
This article provides a focused review of the current literature on global environmental governance....
The golden era of environmental lawmaking, in which 22 major federal laws were passed between 1964 a...
Environmentalism and Global International Society reveals how environmental values and ideas have tr...
As debates on reform of global environmental governance intensify, the future of the United Nations ...
© 2007 Dr. Karen E. HusseyThe ability of states to tackle global environmental problems, and to mana...
Environmental policy has come a long way over the last century. From its origins in the conservation...
In the millennium, it has become increasingly apparent that a defining issue of this century will be...
For U.S. environmentalists, 2005 will be remembered harshly, because it marked the clear and undenia...
In the last thirty years, the study of international environmental politics has grown amongst a vas...
Non-governmental organizations play an increasingly important role in the formation and implementati...
In the following excerpt from his book Earth in the Balance, Vice President-elect Gore describes wha...
For more than a century, the United States has taken the lead in organizing international responses ...
This chapter examines how US foreign policy on environmental issues has evolved over a period of nea...
Over the period 2000 to 2008, the United States maintained a largely hos-tile posture toward multila...
When environmental issues emerged on the international agenda in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the...
This article provides a focused review of the current literature on global environmental governance....
The golden era of environmental lawmaking, in which 22 major federal laws were passed between 1964 a...
Environmentalism and Global International Society reveals how environmental values and ideas have tr...
As debates on reform of global environmental governance intensify, the future of the United Nations ...
© 2007 Dr. Karen E. HusseyThe ability of states to tackle global environmental problems, and to mana...
Environmental policy has come a long way over the last century. From its origins in the conservation...
In the millennium, it has become increasingly apparent that a defining issue of this century will be...
For U.S. environmentalists, 2005 will be remembered harshly, because it marked the clear and undenia...
In the last thirty years, the study of international environmental politics has grown amongst a vas...
Non-governmental organizations play an increasingly important role in the formation and implementati...
In the following excerpt from his book Earth in the Balance, Vice President-elect Gore describes wha...