Radoslav S Dimitrov
Biographic Data
| ID | 2226010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radoslav S Dimitrov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radoslav S |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimitrov |
| SIGNATURE | DIMITROV R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8810-5138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Institutional and environmental effectiveness: Will the Paris Agreement work
The 2015 Paris Agreement (PA) has been widely hailed as a diplomatic triumph and a breakthrough in global climate cooperation. However, it is commonly accepted that the PA's collective goal—keeping global warming “well below” 2°C above preindustrial levels—remains ambitious. Making matters even more challenging, in 2017, global CO 2 emissions resumed growth after 3 years of near standstill. In 2018, this growth accelerated. It is therefore extrem…
Empty Institutions in Global Environmental Politics
Why are some institutions without any policy powers or output? This study documents the efforts by governments to create empty international institutions whose mandates deprive them of any capacity for policy formulation or implementation. Examples include the United Nations Forum on Forests, the Copenhagen Accord on Climate Change, and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Research is based on participation in twenty-one rounds of negoti…
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Behind Closed Doors
The Paris Agreement constitutes a political success in climate negotiations and traditional state diplomacy, and offers important implications for academic research. Based on participatory research, the article examines the political dynamics in Paris and highlights features of the process that help us understand the outcome. It describes battles on key contentious issues behind closed doors, provides a summary and evaluation of the new agreement…
Inside UN Climate Change Negotiations: The Copenhagen Conference
UN negotiations on climate change entail a fundamental transformation of the global economy and constitute the single most important process in world politics. This is an account of the 2009 Copenhagen summit from the perspective of a government delegate. The article offers a guide to global climate negotiations, tells the story of Copenhagen from behind closed doors, and assesses the current state of global climate governance. It outlines key po…
Inside Copenhagen: The State of Climate Governance
This article clarifies the outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference from the perspective of a government delegate. Access behind closed doors reveals the full extent of the damage. The failure at Copenhagen was worse than our worstcase scenario but should not obscure a bigger and brighter picture. Aggregate climate governance is in healthy condition that contrasts with the plight of multilateral climate governance. While the multilateral UN p…
O princípio da precaução nas políticas ambientais globais
O artigo avalia a aplicação do princípio da precaução no nível internacional, utilizando um estudo comparativode quatro casos nas políticas ambientais globais: erosão da camada de ozônio, chuva ácida,desmatamento e a degradação dos recifes de coral. Contrariamente às noções acadêmicas correntes, oprincípio da precaução não é amplamente empregado na política ambiental internacional. Os registrosempíricos mostram que os governos se abstêm de implem…
International Nonregimes: A Research Agenda
Why are multilateral institutions absent from some areas of international relations? Governments have not concluded regulatory policy agreements on tactical nuclear weapons and small arms control, deforestation, information privacy, and other transnational issues. The absence of regimes in such policy arenas is an empirical phenomenon with considerable theoretical and policy implications. Yet, existing scholarship on global governance largely ign…
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate, Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 190.Among policy issues struggling for attention on political agendas, climate change is particularly consequential, by virtue of its large-scale negative consequences for all human communities and ecosystems and the high policy costs of remedial action. The stakes are singularly high, …
Hostage to Norms: States, Institutions and Global Forest Politics
Global forest politics reveal surprising impacts of environmental norms on state behavior at the international level. Negotiations regarding deforestation have repeatedly failed to produce a policy agreement. Instead of abandoning the deadlocked talks, governments created the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), a hollow entity deliberately deprived of decision-making powers. Various theoretical perspectives fail to explain why states create b…
Knowledge, Power, and Interests in Environmental Regime Formation
Knowledge-based approaches to the study of international environmental cooperation tend to treat knowledge as a single variable. It is more useful to distinguish between different types of information and to analyze their roles in policy formation separately. Disaggregating knowledge reveals important aspects of the interplay between knowledge, interests, and power which otherwise remain hidden, and helps solve empirical puzzles and theoretical c…
Contested Waters: Conflict, Scale, and Sustainability in Aquatic Socioecological Systems
Adequate interpretations of the complex social processes that contribute to the transformation of aquatic ecosystems and subsequent conflicts over water demand an interdisciplinary perspective. In this special issue, we focus on the multiple causes of conflicts over water, sensitive to the complex interrelations between and within social and ecological phenomena that result in transformed and contested environments. The cases presented here--repr…
Water, Conflict, and Security: A Conceptual Minefield
Approaches to water planning and international arrangements for water conflict resolution are conditioned by the context in which water resources are discussed and by the priorities that emerge from such discussions. This chapter analyzes the consequences of linking water to security issues, and the paradigmatic influence of competing notions of security on water policy directions. I develop a generic model of what constitutes any notion of secur…
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Behind Closed Doors
The Paris Agreement constitutes a political success in climate negotiations and traditional state diplomacy, and offers important implications for academic research. Based on participatory research, the article examines the political dynamics in Paris and highlights features of the process that help us understand the outcome. It describes battles on key contentious issues behind closed doors, provides a summary and evaluation of the new agreement…
Inside Copenhagen: The State of Climate Governance
This article clarifies the outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference from the perspective of a government delegate. Access behind closed doors reveals the full extent of the damage. The failure at Copenhagen was worse than our worstcase scenario but should not obscure a bigger and brighter picture. Aggregate climate governance is in healthy condition that contrasts with the plight of multilateral climate governance. While the multilateral UN p…
Inside UN Climate Change Negotiations: The Copenhagen Conference
UN negotiations on climate change entail a fundamental transformation of the global economy and constitute the single most important process in world politics. This is an account of the 2009 Copenhagen summit from the perspective of a government delegate. The article offers a guide to global climate negotiations, tells the story of Copenhagen from behind closed doors, and assesses the current state of global climate governance. It outlines key po…
Contested Waters: Conflict, Scale, and Sustainability in Aquatic Socioecological Systems
Adequate interpretations of the complex social processes that contribute to the transformation of aquatic ecosystems and subsequent conflicts over water demand an interdisciplinary perspective. In this special issue, we focus on the multiple causes of conflicts over water, sensitive to the complex interrelations between and within social and ecological phenomena that result in transformed and contested environments. The cases presented here--repr…
International Nonregimes: A Research Agenda
Why are multilateral institutions absent from some areas of international relations? Governments have not concluded regulatory policy agreements on tactical nuclear weapons and small arms control, deforestation, information privacy, and other transnational issues. The absence of regimes in such policy arenas is an empirical phenomenon with considerable theoretical and policy implications. Yet, existing scholarship on global governance largely ign…
Knowledge, Power, and Interests in Environmental Regime Formation
Knowledge-based approaches to the study of international environmental cooperation tend to treat knowledge as a single variable. It is more useful to distinguish between different types of information and to analyze their roles in policy formation separately. Disaggregating knowledge reveals important aspects of the interplay between knowledge, interests, and power which otherwise remain hidden, and helps solve empirical puzzles and theoretical c…
Empty Institutions in Global Environmental Politics
Why are some institutions without any policy powers or output? This study documents the efforts by governments to create empty international institutions whose mandates deprive them of any capacity for policy formulation or implementation. Examples include the United Nations Forum on Forests, the Copenhagen Accord on Climate Change, and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Research is based on participation in twenty-one rounds of negoti…
Hostage to Norms: States, Institutions and Global Forest Politics
Global forest politics reveal surprising impacts of environmental norms on state behavior at the international level. Negotiations regarding deforestation have repeatedly failed to produce a policy agreement. Instead of abandoning the deadlocked talks, governments created the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), a hollow entity deliberately deprived of decision-making powers. Various theoretical perspectives fail to explain why states create b…
Institutional and environmental effectiveness: Will the Paris Agreement work
The 2015 Paris Agreement (PA) has been widely hailed as a diplomatic triumph and a breakthrough in global climate cooperation. However, it is commonly accepted that the PA's collective goal—keeping global warming “well below” 2°C above preindustrial levels—remains ambitious. Making matters even more challenging, in 2017, global CO 2 emissions resumed growth after 3 years of near standstill. In 2018, this growth accelerated. It is therefore extrem…
Water, Conflict, and Security: A Conceptual Minefield
Approaches to water planning and international arrangements for water conflict resolution are conditioned by the context in which water resources are discussed and by the priorities that emerge from such discussions. This chapter analyzes the consequences of linking water to security issues, and the paradigmatic influence of competing notions of security on water policy directions. I develop a generic model of what constitutes any notion of secur…
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate, Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 190.Among policy issues struggling for attention on political agendas, climate change is particularly consequential, by virtue of its large-scale negative consequences for all human communities and ecosystems and the high policy costs of remedial action. The stakes are singularly high, …
Contested Waters: Conflict, Scale, and Sustainability in Aquatic Socioecological Systems
Adequate interpretations of the complex social processes that contribute to the transformation of aquatic ecosystems and subsequent conflicts over water demand an interdisciplinary perspective. In this special issue, we focus on the multiple causes of conflicts over water, sensitive to the complex interrelations between and within social and ecological phenomena that result in transformed and contested environments. The cases presented here--repr…
Water, Conflict, and Security: A Conceptual Minefield
Approaches to water planning and international arrangements for water conflict resolution are conditioned by the context in which water resources are discussed and by the priorities that emerge from such discussions. This chapter analyzes the consequences of linking water to security issues, and the paradigmatic influence of competing notions of security on water policy directions. I develop a generic model of what constitutes any notion of secur…
Knowledge, Power, and Interests in Environmental Regime Formation
Knowledge-based approaches to the study of international environmental cooperation tend to treat knowledge as a single variable. It is more useful to distinguish between different types of information and to analyze their roles in policy formation separately. Disaggregating knowledge reveals important aspects of the interplay between knowledge, interests, and power which otherwise remain hidden, and helps solve empirical puzzles and theoretical c…
Hostage to Norms: States, Institutions and Global Forest Politics
Global forest politics reveal surprising impacts of environmental norms on state behavior at the international level. Negotiations regarding deforestation have repeatedly failed to produce a policy agreement. Instead of abandoning the deadlocked talks, governments created the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), a hollow entity deliberately deprived of decision-making powers. Various theoretical perspectives fail to explain why states create b…
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate, Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 190.Among policy issues struggling for attention on political agendas, climate change is particularly consequential, by virtue of its large-scale negative consequences for all human communities and ecosystems and the high policy costs of remedial action. The stakes are singularly high, …
International Nonregimes: A Research Agenda
Why are multilateral institutions absent from some areas of international relations? Governments have not concluded regulatory policy agreements on tactical nuclear weapons and small arms control, deforestation, information privacy, and other transnational issues. The absence of regimes in such policy arenas is an empirical phenomenon with considerable theoretical and policy implications. Yet, existing scholarship on global governance largely ign…
Inside UN Climate Change Negotiations: The Copenhagen Conference
UN negotiations on climate change entail a fundamental transformation of the global economy and constitute the single most important process in world politics. This is an account of the 2009 Copenhagen summit from the perspective of a government delegate. The article offers a guide to global climate negotiations, tells the story of Copenhagen from behind closed doors, and assesses the current state of global climate governance. It outlines key po…
Inside Copenhagen: The State of Climate Governance
This article clarifies the outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference from the perspective of a government delegate. Access behind closed doors reveals the full extent of the damage. The failure at Copenhagen was worse than our worstcase scenario but should not obscure a bigger and brighter picture. Aggregate climate governance is in healthy condition that contrasts with the plight of multilateral climate governance. While the multilateral UN p…
O princípio da precaução nas políticas ambientais globais
O artigo avalia a aplicação do princípio da precaução no nível internacional, utilizando um estudo comparativode quatro casos nas políticas ambientais globais: erosão da camada de ozônio, chuva ácida,desmatamento e a degradação dos recifes de coral. Contrariamente às noções acadêmicas correntes, oprincípio da precaução não é amplamente empregado na política ambiental internacional. Os registrosempíricos mostram que os governos se abstêm de implem…
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Behind Closed Doors
The Paris Agreement constitutes a political success in climate negotiations and traditional state diplomacy, and offers important implications for academic research. Based on participatory research, the article examines the political dynamics in Paris and highlights features of the process that help us understand the outcome. It describes battles on key contentious issues behind closed doors, provides a summary and evaluation of the new agreement…
Institutional and environmental effectiveness: Will the Paris Agreement work
The 2015 Paris Agreement (PA) has been widely hailed as a diplomatic triumph and a breakthrough in global climate cooperation. However, it is commonly accepted that the PA's collective goal—keeping global warming “well below” 2°C above preindustrial levels—remains ambitious. Making matters even more challenging, in 2017, global CO 2 emissions resumed growth after 3 years of near standstill. In 2018, this growth accelerated. It is therefore extrem…
Empty Institutions in Global Environmental Politics
Why are some institutions without any policy powers or output? This study documents the efforts by governments to create empty international institutions whose mandates deprive them of any capacity for policy formulation or implementation. Examples include the United Nations Forum on Forests, the Copenhagen Accord on Climate Change, and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Research is based on participation in twenty-one rounds of negoti…
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