Smokestack diplomacy : cooperation and conflict in East-West environmental politics / Robert G. Darst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darst, Robert G.

Series:

Global environmental accords.

Global environmental accord

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental protection--International cooperation--Case studies.

Environmental protection.

Environmental policy--International cooperation--Case studies.

Environmental policy.

Marine pollution--Baltic Sea--Case studies.

Marine pollution.

Air--Pollution--Case studies.

Air.

Transboundary pollution--Case studies.

Transboundary pollution.

Nuclear power plants--Safety measures--Case studies.

Nuclear power plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 300 p. ) maps ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-277) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27119-2

1-4237-3073-9

OCLC:

62144719