Perspectives on Politics

Frank Biermann, Utrecht University Thirty years of national and international climate policy have not led to sufficient reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The intergovernmental negotiation process, in particular, is widely criticized. While thousands of diplomats, […]

John M. Meyer, Humboldt State University In this book, Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett continue to develop a project that emerged in two previous coauthored books: Deliberative Environmental Politics (2005) and Global Democracy […]

Walter F. Baber, California State University, Long Beach Robert V. Bartlett, University of Vermont For how long now have environmentalists been exhorted to think globally and act locally? Variously attributed to David Brower, Rene Dubos, […]

Joan Cocks, Mount Holyoke College Divided Sovereignty pivots on the following conundrum. On the one hand, the coercive capacities of states allow them to protect their citizens from harm by other citizens, while the sovereign […]

Baogang He, Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Leigh Jenco, Andrew J. Nathan, Lynette H. Ong, Thomas L. Pangle, Joseph Wong China, also known as “the People’s Republic of China,” is indisputably the world’s most populous country and […]

Gregory P. Williams After the Civil War came the age of factories, cities, and powerful business tycoons: Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller. Conventionally, the Gilded Age is thought of as […]

Sarah S. Stroup, Wendy H. Wong The study of global politics today encompasses an enormous array of actors, relationships, and processes beyond the state. The growth in the study of one nonstate actor, international nongovernmental […]

Matthew Evangelista Although estimates vary, since November 2001 the United States has used armed drones—known more formally as unmanned or remotely piloted aerial vehicles—to kill several thousand people, among whom hundreds were noncombatants and perhaps […]