Post-Hegemonic Climate Politics?
- 1 February 2009
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
- Vol. 11 (1), 140-158
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856x.2008.00354.x
Abstract
The article argues that the effects of a new US president on global climate politics will be rather less than might be expected. This is partly because the rhetorical differences between Bush, his predecessor Clinton and President Obama mask great continuities in US climate change politics since the early 1990s. It is also because, unlike in other issue areas, the EU has moved into a position of clear international leadership, which is likely to provoke diplomatic conflict, both for standard reasons of realpolitik but more precisely because of the different growth strategies pursued by each side and the different implications of those strategies for climate policy. Finally, the emergence of a dense pattern of transnational climate governance will increasingly constrain the options for either side in pursuing new climate change agreements after 2012.Keywords
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