Description
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of the critical approaches to global environmental politics. Guided by questions of how to understand the ecological predicaments and the global dimensions of the environmental policy questions they raise, this book is a contribution to fostering an approach to IR and ecological theory.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Exploring International Ecopolitical Theory / EricLaferrière and Peter J. Stoett
1 Environmental Security: Ecology or International Relations? /Simon Dalby
2 The Place of History in International Relations and Ecology:Discourses of Environmentalism in the Colonial Era / RosalindWarner
3 From Economics to Ecology: Toward New Theory for InternationalEnvironmental Politics / Neil E. Harrison
4 Nietzsche’s Conception of Life as Overcoming: Implicationsfor Managing Ecosystems / Denis Madore
5 Ecology and Critical Theories: A Problematic Synthesis /Eivind Hovden
6 IR Theory, Green Political Theory, and Critical Approaches: WhatProspects? / Martin Weber
7 Social Constructivism, International Relations Theory, and Ecology/ Paul Williams
Conclusion: Following the Critical Path / Eric Laferrière andPeter J. Stoett
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Contributors
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