Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that
are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated …

A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes
affect global environmental outcomes. This comprehensive and accessible book fills the …

The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the
theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used …

Scholars have recently devoted increasing attention to the role and function of international
bureaucracies in global policymaking. Some of them contend that international public …

This perspective identifies how recent advances contribute to re-evaluating and re-
constructing global environmental negotiations as a research object by calling into question …

The past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as" the world's
environmental conscience." The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was …

Why do governmental institutions look as they do, and who controls them? International
relations scholars often point to states. However, two-thirds of today's intergovernmental …

International organizations and their secretariats, called international public administrations
(IPAs), have been found to hold considerable authority in world politics. This study …

While there is little doubt that international public administrations (IPAs) exert autonomous
influence on international policy outputs, scholars struggle with the problem of how to …

Our article aims to better understand the role of the secretariat of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the increasingly complex global …