Robert Falkner
Biographic Data
| ID | 298093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Falkner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Falkner |
| SIGNATURE | FALKNER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9990-6926 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 304 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Historicizing Global Environmental Politics
This article makes the case for a deeper integration of historical perspectives into the study of global environmental politics (GEP). A review of the Global Environmental Politics journal’s first twenty-five years reveals how, despite its multidisciplinary ethos, history remains marginal to the research agenda that characterizes its output. The article identifies three uses of historical perspectives that can enrich GEP scholarship. First, histo…
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations
The purpose of this article is to introduce English School (ES) theory to the study of global environmental politics (GEP). The ES is an established theoretical tradition in the discipline of international relations (IR) but is not widely known, let alone used, in GEP. My aim is to overcome this state of neglect and suggest ways in which ES theory can enrich the study of international environmental affairs. I argue that ES theory makes at least t…
Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities
This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the environmental field, and what their special environmental responsibilities are. In doing so, the book connects International Relations (IR) debates on power inequality, great powers, and great…
Reforming Global Governance: Selected essentials from the 7th Global China Dialogue Forum
The 7th Global China Dialogue was organised by Global China Academy and ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, with support from Tsinghua University, China, for organising speakers from China, on the 10th December at the British Academy, London. Presented here are summaries of special addresses of Opening and Closing sessions and abstracts of panel speeches. Full speeches will be published in Reforming Global G…
The unavoidability of justice – and order – in international climate politics: From Kyoto to Paris and beyond
This article reviews the role that normative claims about climate justice have played in international climate politics and traces how international society's approach to equity questions has changed between the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement (2015).In an anarchic international environment, international society can be expected to prioritize order over justice, and the interest of the most powerful states over those of the most vul…
The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society
This article develops an English School framework for analysing the emergence of new primary institutions in global international society, and applies this to the case of environmental stewardship. The article traces the impact that global environmentalism has had on the normative order of global international society, examines the creation of secondary institutions around this norm and identifies the ways in which these developments have become …
Rethinking Europe’s external relations in an age of global turmoil: An introduction
A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change? On Bargaining Efficiency, Club Benefits, and International Legitimacy
Gridlock in the multilateral climate negotiations has created growing scholarly and practical interest in the use of minilateral forums. A large variety of climate club proposals have been developed in recent years, which promise more effective bargaining among the main climate powers, better incentives to encourage mitigation efforts and discourage free-riding, and new ways to align international power asymmetries with the interests of the globa…
The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics
countries reached agreement on a new climate treaty that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described as 'a monumental triumph for people and our planet'. 1 The Paris Agreement represented a remarkable reversal of fortune for the UN-sponsored climate negotiations. After adopting the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, which established the objective of preventing dangerous human-induced climate change by stabilizing greenhou…
Global environmental politics and energy: Mapping the research agenda
Regulating Nanotechnologies: Risk, Uncertainty and the Global Governance Gap
Nanosciences and nanotechnologies are set to transform the global industrial landscape, but the debate on how to regulate environmental, health and safety risks is lagging behind technological innovation. Current regulatory efforts are primarily focused on the national and regional level, while the international dimensions of nanotechnology governance are still poorly understood and rarely feature on the international agenda. However, with the on…
Global environmentalism and the greening of international society
Have environmental values become part of the normative structure of international society? Has the rise of global environmentalism led to a greening of international society? Most International Relations research on environmental issues fails to address these questions as it typically focuses on the creation of issue-specific regimes or informal governance mechanisms. This article engages English School theory in an effort to examine the impact t…
Rethinking world politics: A theory of transnational neopluralism
The limits of regulatory convergence: Globalization and GMO politics in the south
Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics
This book puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, and provides detailed case studies of the
The political economy of ‘normative power’ Europe: EU environmental leadership in international biotechnology regulation
This paper examines the transformation of the European Union from a laggard to a leader in the international politics of biotechnology regulation. The emergence of EU leadership in global environmental politics during the 1990s seems to support recent arguments about the distinctive nature of the EU as a ‘normative power’ in international relations. However, as this paper argues, this perspective lacks historical depth and fails to capture tensio…
The Influence of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa
This paper analyzes how the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, a global regime governing trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), is influencing agricultural biotechnology policy choices in developing countries/emerging economies. Through empirical analysis of Mexico, China and South Africa, we examine whether discursive and/or institutional change has followed the negotiation and implementation of the Cartagena Protocol in these countries. …
International sources of environmental policy change in China: The case of genetically modified food
China's agricultural biotechnology policy has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade, from a strongly promotional to a more precautionary approach. From the 1980s onwards, China invested heavily in biotechnology development and in the early 1990s emerged as the leading biotech country in the developing world. In the late 1990s, however, it halted the authorization of new genetically modified crops and introduced stringent safety…
American Hegemony and the Global Environment
What about the critics who say the Bush Administration—at best—lacks an environmental policy? Or—at worst—is engaged in an assault on the environment? It's clear that we have failed in the court of public opinion to tell our story. (John F. Turner, US Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, March 2, 2004) For many environmentalists in Europe and elsewhere, the United States has emerged as the new “ro…
The First Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links
This article discusses private environmental governance at the global level. It is widely acknowledged that corporations play an increasing role in global environmental politics, not only as lobbyists in international negotiations or agents of implementation, but also as actors creating private institutional arrangements that perform environmental governance functions. The rise of such private forms of global governance raises a number of questio…
Regulating Biotech Trade: The Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety
The agreement on an international biosafety treaty in January 2000 marks an important achievement in reconciling trade and environmental interests. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety strengthens the right of importing nations to reject shipments of genetically modified organisms on grounds of environmental safety or risks to human health. Crucially, it acknowledges the precautionary principle within its environmental risk assessment procedure. H…
The Multilateral Ozone Fund of the Montreal Protocol
Global environmental change and international governance
Journal Article Global environmental change and international governance Get access Global environmental change and international governance. Edited by Oran R. Young, George J. Demkoand Kilaparti Ramakrishna. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. 1996. 275pp. Index. £29.95. ISBN 0 87451 740 0. Robert Falkner Robert Falkner 1Nuffield College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inte…
The political economy of ‘normative power’ Europe: EU environmental leadership in international biotechnology regulation
This paper examines the transformation of the European Union from a laggard to a leader in the international politics of biotechnology regulation. The emergence of EU leadership in global environmental politics during the 1990s seems to support recent arguments about the distinctive nature of the EU as a ‘normative power’ in international relations. However, as this paper argues, this perspective lacks historical depth and fails to capture tensio…
Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links
This article discusses private environmental governance at the global level. It is widely acknowledged that corporations play an increasing role in global environmental politics, not only as lobbyists in international negotiations or agents of implementation, but also as actors creating private institutional arrangements that perform environmental governance functions. The rise of such private forms of global governance raises a number of questio…
A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change? On Bargaining Efficiency, Club Benefits, and International Legitimacy
Gridlock in the multilateral climate negotiations has created growing scholarly and practical interest in the use of minilateral forums. A large variety of climate club proposals have been developed in recent years, which promise more effective bargaining among the main climate powers, better incentives to encourage mitigation efforts and discourage free-riding, and new ways to align international power asymmetries with the interests of the globa…
The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics
countries reached agreement on a new climate treaty that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described as 'a monumental triumph for people and our planet'. 1 The Paris Agreement represented a remarkable reversal of fortune for the UN-sponsored climate negotiations. After adopting the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, which established the objective of preventing dangerous human-induced climate change by stabilizing greenhou…
American Hegemony and the Global Environment
What about the critics who say the Bush Administration—at best—lacks an environmental policy? Or—at worst—is engaged in an assault on the environment? It's clear that we have failed in the court of public opinion to tell our story. (John F. Turner, US Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, March 2, 2004) For many environmentalists in Europe and elsewhere, the United States has emerged as the new “ro…
Global environmental politics and energy: Mapping the research agenda
The Influence of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa
This paper analyzes how the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, a global regime governing trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), is influencing agricultural biotechnology policy choices in developing countries/emerging economies. Through empirical analysis of Mexico, China and South Africa, we examine whether discursive and/or institutional change has followed the negotiation and implementation of the Cartagena Protocol in these countries. …
Regulating Nanotechnologies: Risk, Uncertainty and the Global Governance Gap
Nanosciences and nanotechnologies are set to transform the global industrial landscape, but the debate on how to regulate environmental, health and safety risks is lagging behind technological innovation. Current regulatory efforts are primarily focused on the national and regional level, while the international dimensions of nanotechnology governance are still poorly understood and rarely feature on the international agenda. However, with the on…
International sources of environmental policy change in China: The case of genetically modified food
China's agricultural biotechnology policy has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade, from a strongly promotional to a more precautionary approach. From the 1980s onwards, China invested heavily in biotechnology development and in the early 1990s emerged as the leading biotech country in the developing world. In the late 1990s, however, it halted the authorization of new genetically modified crops and introduced stringent safety…
The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society
This article develops an English School framework for analysing the emergence of new primary institutions in global international society, and applies this to the case of environmental stewardship. The article traces the impact that global environmentalism has had on the normative order of global international society, examines the creation of secondary institutions around this norm and identifies the ways in which these developments have become …
The unavoidability of justice – and order – in international climate politics: From Kyoto to Paris and beyond
This article reviews the role that normative claims about climate justice have played in international climate politics and traces how international society's approach to equity questions has changed between the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement (2015).In an anarchic international environment, international society can be expected to prioritize order over justice, and the interest of the most powerful states over those of the most vul…
The limits of regulatory convergence: Globalization and GMO politics in the south
Regulating Biotech Trade: The Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety
The agreement on an international biosafety treaty in January 2000 marks an important achievement in reconciling trade and environmental interests. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety strengthens the right of importing nations to reject shipments of genetically modified organisms on grounds of environmental safety or risks to human health. Crucially, it acknowledges the precautionary principle within its environmental risk assessment procedure. H…
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations
The purpose of this article is to introduce English School (ES) theory to the study of global environmental politics (GEP). The ES is an established theoretical tradition in the discipline of international relations (IR) but is not widely known, let alone used, in GEP. My aim is to overcome this state of neglect and suggest ways in which ES theory can enrich the study of international environmental affairs. I argue that ES theory makes at least t…
Global environmentalism and the greening of international society
Have environmental values become part of the normative structure of international society? Has the rise of global environmentalism led to a greening of international society? Most International Relations research on environmental issues fails to address these questions as it typically focuses on the creation of issue-specific regimes or informal governance mechanisms. This article engages English School theory in an effort to examine the impact t…
Global environmental change and international governance
Journal Article Global environmental change and international governance Get access Global environmental change and international governance. Edited by Oran R. Young, George J. Demkoand Kilaparti Ramakrishna. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. 1996. 275pp. Index. £29.95. ISBN 0 87451 740 0. Robert Falkner Robert Falkner 1Nuffield College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inte…
The Multilateral Ozone Fund of the Montreal Protocol
The First Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Global environmental change and international governance
Journal Article Global environmental change and international governance Get access Global environmental change and international governance. Edited by Oran R. Young, George J. Demkoand Kilaparti Ramakrishna. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. 1996. 275pp. Index. £29.95. ISBN 0 87451 740 0. Robert Falkner Robert Falkner 1Nuffield College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inte…
The Multilateral Ozone Fund of the Montreal Protocol
Regulating Biotech Trade: The Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety
The agreement on an international biosafety treaty in January 2000 marks an important achievement in reconciling trade and environmental interests. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety strengthens the right of importing nations to reject shipments of genetically modified organisms on grounds of environmental safety or risks to human health. Crucially, it acknowledges the precautionary principle within its environmental risk assessment procedure. H…
Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links
This article discusses private environmental governance at the global level. It is widely acknowledged that corporations play an increasing role in global environmental politics, not only as lobbyists in international negotiations or agents of implementation, but also as actors creating private institutional arrangements that perform environmental governance functions. The rise of such private forms of global governance raises a number of questio…
The First Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
American Hegemony and the Global Environment
What about the critics who say the Bush Administration—at best—lacks an environmental policy? Or—at worst—is engaged in an assault on the environment? It's clear that we have failed in the court of public opinion to tell our story. (John F. Turner, US Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, March 2, 2004) For many environmentalists in Europe and elsewhere, the United States has emerged as the new “ro…
The Influence of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa
This paper analyzes how the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, a global regime governing trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), is influencing agricultural biotechnology policy choices in developing countries/emerging economies. Through empirical analysis of Mexico, China and South Africa, we examine whether discursive and/or institutional change has followed the negotiation and implementation of the Cartagena Protocol in these countries. …
International sources of environmental policy change in China: The case of genetically modified food
China's agricultural biotechnology policy has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade, from a strongly promotional to a more precautionary approach. From the 1980s onwards, China invested heavily in biotechnology development and in the early 1990s emerged as the leading biotech country in the developing world. In the late 1990s, however, it halted the authorization of new genetically modified crops and introduced stringent safety…
The political economy of ‘normative power’ Europe: EU environmental leadership in international biotechnology regulation
This paper examines the transformation of the European Union from a laggard to a leader in the international politics of biotechnology regulation. The emergence of EU leadership in global environmental politics during the 1990s seems to support recent arguments about the distinctive nature of the EU as a ‘normative power’ in international relations. However, as this paper argues, this perspective lacks historical depth and fails to capture tensio…
Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics
This book puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, and provides detailed case studies of the
The limits of regulatory convergence: Globalization and GMO politics in the south
Rethinking world politics: A theory of transnational neopluralism
Regulating Nanotechnologies: Risk, Uncertainty and the Global Governance Gap
Nanosciences and nanotechnologies are set to transform the global industrial landscape, but the debate on how to regulate environmental, health and safety risks is lagging behind technological innovation. Current regulatory efforts are primarily focused on the national and regional level, while the international dimensions of nanotechnology governance are still poorly understood and rarely feature on the international agenda. However, with the on…
Global environmentalism and the greening of international society
Have environmental values become part of the normative structure of international society? Has the rise of global environmentalism led to a greening of international society? Most International Relations research on environmental issues fails to address these questions as it typically focuses on the creation of issue-specific regimes or informal governance mechanisms. This article engages English School theory in an effort to examine the impact t…
Global environmental politics and energy: Mapping the research agenda
A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change? On Bargaining Efficiency, Club Benefits, and International Legitimacy
Gridlock in the multilateral climate negotiations has created growing scholarly and practical interest in the use of minilateral forums. A large variety of climate club proposals have been developed in recent years, which promise more effective bargaining among the main climate powers, better incentives to encourage mitigation efforts and discourage free-riding, and new ways to align international power asymmetries with the interests of the globa…
The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics
countries reached agreement on a new climate treaty that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described as 'a monumental triumph for people and our planet'. 1 The Paris Agreement represented a remarkable reversal of fortune for the UN-sponsored climate negotiations. After adopting the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, which established the objective of preventing dangerous human-induced climate change by stabilizing greenhou…
Rethinking Europe’s external relations in an age of global turmoil: An introduction
The unavoidability of justice – and order – in international climate politics: From Kyoto to Paris and beyond
This article reviews the role that normative claims about climate justice have played in international climate politics and traces how international society's approach to equity questions has changed between the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement (2015).In an anarchic international environment, international society can be expected to prioritize order over justice, and the interest of the most powerful states over those of the most vul…
The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society
This article develops an English School framework for analysing the emergence of new primary institutions in global international society, and applies this to the case of environmental stewardship. The article traces the impact that global environmentalism has had on the normative order of global international society, examines the creation of secondary institutions around this norm and identifies the ways in which these developments have become …
Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities
This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the environmental field, and what their special environmental responsibilities are. In doing so, the book connects International Relations (IR) debates on power inequality, great powers, and great…
Reforming Global Governance: Selected essentials from the 7th Global China Dialogue Forum
The 7th Global China Dialogue was organised by Global China Academy and ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, with support from Tsinghua University, China, for organising speakers from China, on the 10th December at the British Academy, London. Presented here are summaries of special addresses of Opening and Closing sessions and abstracts of panel speeches. Full speeches will be published in Reforming Global G…
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations
The purpose of this article is to introduce English School (ES) theory to the study of global environmental politics (GEP). The ES is an established theoretical tradition in the discipline of international relations (IR) but is not widely known, let alone used, in GEP. My aim is to overcome this state of neglect and suggest ways in which ES theory can enrich the study of international environmental affairs. I argue that ES theory makes at least t…
Historicizing Global Environmental Politics
This article makes the case for a deeper integration of historical perspectives into the study of global environmental politics (GEP). A review of the Global Environmental Politics journal’s first twenty-five years reveals how, despite its multidisciplinary ethos, history remains marginal to the research agenda that characterizes its output. The article identifies three uses of historical perspectives that can enrich GEP scholarship. First, histo…
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