Conceptualizing Climate Governance Beyond the International Regime
Abstract
The governance of climate change has traditionally been conceived as an issue of international co-operation and considered through the lens of regime analysis. Increasingly, scholars of global governance have highlighted the multiple parallel initiatives involving a range of actors at different levels of governance through which this issue is being addressed. In this paper, we argue that this phenomenon warrants a re-engagement with some of the conceptual cornerstones of international studies. We highlight the conceptual challenges posed by the increasing involvement of non-nation-state actors (NNSAs) in the governance of climate change and explore the potential for drawing from alternative theoretical traditions to address these challenges. Specifically, the paper combines insights from neo-Gramscian and governmentality perspectives as a means of providing the critical space required to generate deeper understanding of: (a) the nature of power in global governance; (b) the relationship between public and private authority; (c) the dynamics between structure and agency; and (d) the rationalities and practices of governance.
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Chukwumerije Okereke, Harriet Bulkeley, Heike Schroeder (2009). Conceptualizing Climate Governance Beyond the International Regime. Global Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.2009.9.1.58
@article{chukwumerije2009conceptualizing,
title = {Conceptualizing Climate Governance Beyond the International Regime},
author = {Okereke, Chukwumerije and Bulkeley, Harriet and Schroeder, Heike},
year = {2009},
journal = {Global Environmental Politics},
doi = {10.1162/glep.2009.9.1.58}
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