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Theoretical Perspectives on International Environmental Politics

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Advances in International Environmental Politics

Abstract

Reviews of the theories of international environmental politics (IEP), like those of international relations (IR) more generally, tend to be organized around different perspectives, commonly realism, liberalism/institutionalism/pluralism, structuralism/Marxism, and ‘critical theories’ (variously Frankfurt school critical theory, poststructuralism, feminism, green thought) (see, for example, Laferrière and Stoett, 1999; Paterson, 2000: Chapters 2–3; Vogler, 2011). Such ways of organizing tend to create the sense of homogenous, internally consistent perspectives, and perhaps more importantly fail to investigate the specifically theoretical aspects of the ideas — that is, they describe the arguments offered by differing perspectives but do not get to the heart of the assumptions underpinning them or ask questions about the internal logic and how one gets to the perspective from these assumptions.

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Paterson, M. (2014). Theoretical Perspectives on International Environmental Politics. In: Betsill, M.M., Hochstetler, K., Stevis, D. (eds) Advances in International Environmental Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137338976_3

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