International Governance

Oran R. Young is Research Professor of Government, Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies, and Director of the Institute on International Environmental Governance, Dartmouth College. His many books include, from Cornell University Press, Polar Politics: Creating International Environmental Regimes, edited with Gail Osherenko, and International Cooperation: Building Regimes for Natural Resources and the Environment.

Any reader interested in gaining an understanding of international cooperation, and especially why states have joined together frequently during the past few decades to address environmental problems, will find this a worthwhile book.- Donald R. Rothwell, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney (Arctic)