Smokestack Diplomacy: Cooperation and Conflict in East-West Environmental Politics

by Robert G. Darst

Book Overview

Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a comparative study of three key issues: nuclear power safety,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262541114
• ISBN13: 9780262541114
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher