East-West and North-South: conflicts and cooperation
In: Lo spettatore internazionale: bimestrale di politica estera. English edition, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 173-182
ISSN: 0584-8776
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In: Lo spettatore internazionale: bimestrale di politica estera. English edition, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 173-182
ISSN: 0584-8776
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In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 636-677
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 449-490
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: American political science review, Band 84, Heft 4, S. 1445-1447
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: Global environmental accord
Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a comparative study of three key issues: nuclear power safety, transboundary air pollution, and Baltic Sea pollution. Although expectations were high that the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union would lead to increased East-West environmental cooperation, the opposite has been true. Russia and the other successor states have generally agreed to address such problems only when paid to do so. Darst finds that post-Cold War environmental cooperation has been most successful when there is an overlap between the environmental and economic interests of the successor states and those of their Western neighbors, and when the foundation for cooperation was laid during the Cold War period. The book is based on extensive original field research, including interviews with diplomats, government officials, scientists, and environmental activists in the successor states and Western Europe. Its findings underscore the importance of the domestic and international political context in which international environmental policy making occurs. It also deepens our understanding of the opportunities and dangers of positive inducements as a tool of international environmental policy.
In: International journal / CIC, Canadian International Council: ij ; Canada's journal of global policy analysis, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 315-331
This paper frames the contemporary challenge of the People's Republic of China in the context of Cold War history. It shows how apparent echoes of the past—Beijing's continued embrace of "socialism;" a partnership with Russia that recalls the Sino–Soviet alliance—help illuminate the sources and nature of present-day East–West conflict, and suggests that Francis Fukuyama's much-pilloried "End of History?" has been misunderstood. Viewing the twenty-first-century standoff with Chinese (and Russian) authoritarianism in historical perspective, the paper concludes, casts prospects for the West more positively than recent conventional wisdom would suggest.
In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift: PVS : German political science quarterly, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 429-431
ISSN: 0032-3470
In: International affairs, Band 78, Heft 4, S. 913-914
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Environmental politics, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 206-208
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: West European politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 232-233
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: Perspectives on political science, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 121-122
ISSN: 1045-7097
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 367-368
ISSN: 0020-7020
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 454
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: International studies review, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 215-218
ISSN: 1521-9488
In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration and institutions, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 301-303
ISSN: 0952-1895