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Climate change is the signature global issue of our time. This is not just because of climate change itself, but also because of the host of socioeconomic and physical impacts that will result from rising temperatures globally. But fundamentally for scholars of international relations, climate change confronts the policy limitations of sovereignty and its implications for global action directly. Because of the lack of effective global and even national climate change policy action, policy initiatives to confront climate change must focus on levels below the global, even though economic models suggest that global policy provision might be the most efficient way to target the implications of climate change. Thus, this study centers on the complexity of climate change policymaking by focusing attention on the evolution of climate change policy action in the New England region, the State of Connecticut, and its municipalities. Adapted from the source document.

Given that the field of international relations is an attempt to understand other social, political, & cultural contexts, it is surprising that there is such resistance to outside input & integration. The International Studies Assoc (ISA) has stressed the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, as witnessed in recent ISA presidential address topics, program themes, & the proliferation of ISA sections. Unfortunately, the latter has produced fragmentation rather than true diversity & multidisciplinarity. Ripe opportunities to integrate concepts & methods with other fields are suggested, eg, cross-pollination between constructionists & rational choice theorists & the use of qualitative, experimental, & historical analysis. 2 Tables, 4 References. M. Pflum