Environmental Politics And Foreign Policy Decision Making In Latin America: Ratifying The Kyoto Protocol (role Theory And International Relations)
by Amy Below /
2014 / English / PDF
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Although the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to
address global climate change, has been regarded by many as an
unsuccessful treaty both politically and environmentally, it
stands as one of the world’s few truly global agreements. Why did
such a diverse group of countries decide to sign and/or ratify
the treaty? Why did they choose to do so at different times and
in different ways? What explains their foreign policy behavior?
Amy Below’s book builds off the increasing significance of
climate change and uses the Kyoto Protocol as a case study to
analyze foreign policy decision making in Latin America.
Although the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to
address global climate change, has been regarded by many as an
unsuccessful treaty both politically and environmentally, it
stands as one of the world’s few truly global agreements. Why did
such a diverse group of countries decide to sign and/or ratify
the treaty? Why did they choose to do so at different times and
in different ways? What explains their foreign policy behavior?
Amy Below’s book builds off the increasing significance of
climate change and uses the Kyoto Protocol as a case study to
analyze foreign policy decision making in Latin America.
Below’s study takes a regional perspective in order to examine
why countries in Latin America made disparate foreign policy
choices when they were faced with the same decision. The book
looks at the decisions in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela via a
process-tracing method. Below uses information obtained from
primary and secondary documents and elite interviews to help
reconstruct the processes, and augments her reconstruction with a
content analysis of Conference of the Parties speeches by
presidents and country delegates. The book complies with
convention in the field by arguing that systemic, national and
individual-level factors simultaneously impact foreign policy
decisions, but makes the additional claim that role theory most
accurately accounts for relationships between variables.
Below’s study takes a regional perspective in order to examine
why countries in Latin America made disparate foreign policy
choices when they were faced with the same decision. The book
looks at the decisions in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela via a
process-tracing method. Below uses information obtained from
primary and secondary documents and elite interviews to help
reconstruct the processes, and augments her reconstruction with a
content analysis of Conference of the Parties speeches by
presidents and country delegates. The book complies with
convention in the field by arguing that systemic, national and
individual-level factors simultaneously impact foreign policy
decisions, but makes the additional claim that role theory most
accurately accounts for relationships between variables.Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy Decision Making in
Latin America
Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy Decision Making in
Latin America considers a variety of factors on individual,
national, and international levels of analysis, and show that the
foreign policy decisions are best viewed through the prism of
role theory. The book also draws conclusions about the value of
role theory in general and about environmental foreign policy
decisions in developing countries, which will be of value to both
policy-makers and academics.
considers a variety of factors on individual,
national, and international levels of analysis, and show that the
foreign policy decisions are best viewed through the prism of
role theory. The book also draws conclusions about the value of
role theory in general and about environmental foreign policy
decisions in developing countries, which will be of value to both
policy-makers and academics.