The Making of International Environmental Treaties: Neoliberal and Constructivist Analyses of Normative Evolution

by Gerry Nagtzaam

Gerry Nagtzaam contends that in recent decades neoliberal institutionalist scholarship on global environmental regimes has burgeoned, as has constructivist scholarship on the key role played by norms in international politics. In this innovative volume, the author sets these interest- and norm-based approaches against each other in order to test their ability to illustrate why and how different environmental norms take hold in some regimes and not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848444222
• ISBN13: 9781848444225
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 392 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"