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Author Below, Amy, author

Title Environmental politics and foreign policy decision making in Latin America : ratifying the Kyoto protocol / Amy Below
Published New York : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Role theory and international relations ; 4
Role theory and international relations ; 4.
Contents pt. 1: 1. Role theory and the Kyoto protocol. 2. Theoretical debates in international relations and foreign policy analysis. 3. Role theory and foreign policy decisions. 4. Role articulation and performance -- pt. 2. Argentina: 5. Menem's voluntary commitment to the United States. 6. Role conceptions and President Menem -- pt. 3. Mexico: 7. Zedillo's dual move for stewardship and leadership. 8. Role conceptions and President Zedillo -- pt. 4. Venezuela: 9. Ch©Łvez's revolutionary change of heart. 10. Role conceptions and President Ch©Łvez -- pt. 5: 11. International context and changing roles. 12. Conclusions and contributions : role theory assessed
Summary "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 worlds 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. Role Theory and Environmental Foreign Policy 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9). Protocols, etc. (1997 December 11)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9) fast
Subject Environmental policy -- Latin America
Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Environmental policy
Environmental protection -- International cooperation
SUBJECT Latin America -- Foreign relations -- Decision making
Latin America -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
Subject Latin America
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134474974
1134474970
0415703301
9780415703307
9780203794746
0203794745