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Author Darst, Robert G

Title Smokestack diplomacy : cooperation and conflict in East-West environmental politics / Robert G. Darst
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)
Series Global environmental accord
Global environmental accords.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Instrumental Manipulation in International Environmental Politics -- 3. Pollution in the Baltic Sea -- 4. Transboundary Air Pollution -- 5. Nuclear Power Safety -- 6. Conclusions
Summary Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a comparative study of three key issues: nuclear power safety, transboundary air pollution, and Baltic Sea pollution. Although expectations were high that the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union would lead to increased East-West environmental cooperation, the opposite has been true. Russia and the other successor states have generally agreed to address such problems only when paid to do so. Darst finds that post-Cold War environmental cooperation has been most successful when there is an overlap between the environmental and economic interests of the successor states and those of their Western neighbors, and when the foundation for cooperation was laid during the Cold War period. The book is based on extensive original field research, including interviews with diplomats, government officials, scientists, and environmental activists in the successor states and Western Europe. Its findings underscore the importance of the domestic and international political context in which international environmental policy making occurs. It also deepens our understanding of the opportunities and dangers of positive inducements as a tool of international environmental policy
Analysis ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/International Relations & Security
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-277) and index
Notes English
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Subject Environmental protection -- International cooperation -- Case studies
Environmental policy -- International cooperation -- Case studies
Marine pollution -- Baltic Sea -- Case studies
Air -- Pollution -- Case studies
Transboundary pollution -- Case studies
Nuclear power plants -- Safety measures -- Case studies
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
Air -- Pollution
Environmental policy -- International cooperation
Environmental protection -- International cooperation
Marine pollution
Nuclear power plants -- Safety measures
Transboundary pollution
Ost-West-Beziehungen
Umweltpolitik
Internationale Kooperation
Grenzüberschreitende Umweltbelastung
Milieubeleid.
Oost-Westverhouding.
Politique de l'environnement -- Coopération internationale.
Centrales nucléaires -- Mesures de sécurité.
Atmosphère -- Pollution.
Mer -- Pollution.
Politique de l'environnement -- Europe.
Atlantic Ocean -- Baltic Sea
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262271196
0262271192
1423730739
9781423730736