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The Trajectory of the Study of International Environmental Politics

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The aim of this chapter is to trace the study of post-World War II international environmental politics (IEP)2 from the point of view of international relations (IR), primarily as it appears in the English language literature.3 Over the last fifteen years there has been a proliferation of publications on the subject. A crude counting indicates that the number of books on international environmental issues (including international environmental politics) rose from 92 in 1988 to 198 in 1989 and 325 in 1990.4 The growth has continued more or less unabated. Thus the central question of this chapter is whether this growth has been associated with a broadening and deepening5 of the study of IEP or whether the hegemony of certain issues and approaches has led to its narrowing over time. My general answer is that the study of IEP has in fact broadened and deepened over time substantively and theoretically, despite the prominence of specific issues and perspectives and the hegemony of liberal environmentalism (Bernstein, 2002).

I would like to thank Steinar Andresen, Dennis Pirages, Marvin Soroos and John Vogler for answering a number of questions on the study of international environmental politics. Dennis, Marvin, John and Lorraine Elliott were kind enough to read and comment on a draft of the chapter, as were my co-editors who read multiple versions. I thank Steven Bernstein, Fred Buttel, Elisabeth Corell, Radoslav Dimitrov, Gabriela Kütting, Ron Mitchell and Detlef Sprinz for providing me with important information in response to a question placed on gep-ed.

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Stevis, D. (2006). The Trajectory of the Study of International Environmental Politics. In: Betsill, M.M., Hochstetler, K., Stevis, D. (eds) Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230518391_2

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