Global Climate Governance: Predicting Paris/Global Environmental and Climate Policy - Einzelansicht

This course provides an overview of global climate policy. Students will be introduced to overarching conceptual frameworks, theoretical perspectives, and empirical studies. As the international negotiations within the global climate regime aspire to conclude a successor agreement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for the period following 2020 by the end of 2015, course participants will undertake structured simulations of potential outcomes of such negotiations.

Luterbacher, Urs and Detlef F. Sprinz. 2001 (+ revised manuscript in progress): International Relations and Global Climate Change, Boston: MIT Press.

Dimitrov, Radoslav. S. 2010. Inside Copenhagen: The State of Climate Governance. Global Environmental Politics 10(2):18-24.

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce. 2009. The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future. 1st ed. New York: Random House (recommended for advance purchase).

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce. 2009. "Recipe for Failure - Why Copenhagen Will Be a Bust, and Other Prophecies from the Foreign-Policy World's Leading Predictioneer." Foreign Policy, http://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/19/recipe-for-failure/

Study Areas:

• MPM (compulsory for the “GeoGovernance” stream, optional otherwise, UP)
• MA Political Science (UP)
• MA Public Administration (UP)
• MA Internationale Beziehungen (FUB, HU, UP)

Admission to a Master program or equivalent.