Global Environmental Politics and Policy
LAIS 548
MIPER and IPE Graduate Certificate Course

This seminar examines the increasing importance of environmental policy and politics in international political economy and global international relations. Using both historical analysis and interdisciplinary environmental studies perspectives, this course explores global environmental problems that have prompted an array of international and global regimes and other approaches to deal with them. It looks at the impact of environmental policy and politics on development, and the role that state and non-state actors play, especially in North-South relations and in the pursuit of sustainability.