This book argues that environmental problems represent a deeper
problem in the way the relationship between human beings and nature
is conceptualised, a relationship which also grounds the implicit
ethical and political concerns of International Relations and its
understanding of environmental politics.
The twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of environmental
issues as among the most important problems in the global political
agenda.
This book argues that limitations in our ability to understand
and address global ecological challenges are related to the
dominance of a distinction between humans and nature. This
distinction is taken to be the basis of thinking about politics in
general and about international relations in particular. As an
attempt to explore this constraint on human thought, The
Environment and International Politics provides an empirical case
study of one major environmental regime created to deal with
ongoing problems in global fisheries at the international level:
the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III).
This convention, which is generally seen as a success story, is
analysed on the basis of its application to the South Pacific
region, providing greater understanding of the fundamental dualism
between human and nature that provides the groundwork for
international environmental politics. Heidegger's philosophy is
then discussed as providing a different view on the nature-human
relationship - a view that could inform a different kind of
political engagement.
With its novel approach and erudite scholarship, "The
Environment and International Politics" will appeal to students and
scholars of philosophy as well as thoseinterested in the
interaction between the environmental and political spheres.
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