Foreign Policies in Transition
Predictions about the success of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are pessimistic. It has now become commonplace to bemoan the scope, ambition, and deeply political nature of a convention that addresses issues ranging from ecosystems p...
Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects Since the mid-1980s, the international community has adopted several significant instruments designed to reverse the degradation of the life support systems of the planet. None of these in...
"Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era enhances one's understanding of the relative significance of international relations as opposed to foreign policy theory and sheds light on current policy choices confronting major actors in world politics in an era of substantial systemic change." David Haglund, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University. "A valuable contribution to scholarship as both an aid to understanding the foreign policies of important countries in the changing international environment of the 1990s and a systematic comparative analysis of the usefulness of the concept of role in studying foreign policy. The authors and editor have done a remarkable job of completing complex analyses of contemporary foreign policy in the early 1990s and tying these together in an integrated study. Readers will find the study a rewarding one." Robert Boardman, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University.