Project MUSE®: Global Environmental Politics - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Global Environmental Politics.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 3 (2003) through current issueLatest Articles: Global Environmental PoliticsTWOProject MUSE®Global Environmental Politics1536-00911526-3800Latest articles in Global Environmental Politics. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Special Issue: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989778
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The first issue of Global Environmental Politics (GEP) was published in February 2001. That inaugural issue set a high standard for scholarship in the field, with articles by established and early-career scholars on topics such as globalization and resistance, environmental organizations and architectures, the effectiveness of international environmental regimes, environmental justice, and perspectives from the Global South. Over the last quarter century, the journal has grown in stature under the leadership of several editorial teams and is now the heart of a thriving community of scholars whose efforts have made it a high-ranking journal in international relations, political science, and environmental studies.In
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallIntroduction to the 25th Anniversary Special Issue: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics2026-05-07text/htmlen-USIntroduction to the 25th Anniversary Special Issue: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®814352026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Back to the Future or Back to Our Roots? Twenty-Five Years of Global Environmental Politics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989779
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Over the last twenty-five years, Global Environmental Politics (GEP) has become a leading journal not just in its eponymous field but also in international relations (IR) and political science. As we navigate the turbulent times of the present, it is useful to reflect on the history of the journal, including recent changes. In this article, I identify and analyze trends in the main areas of GEP’s scope: global, environmental, and political. These insights were distilled from a full reading of articles published in the journal between 2001 and 2024, as well as an inductive quantitative content analysis that covered more than 1,300 key terms, including a wide range of geographic locations, types of actors
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallBack to the Future or Back to Our Roots? Twenty-Five Years of Global Environmental Politics2026-05-07text/htmlen-USBack to the Future or Back to Our Roots? Twenty-Five Years of Global Environmental Politics2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®2270292026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07The Changing Contours of Climate Politics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989780
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How has climate change politics evolved over the last thirty-five years? Our article draws on this field’s extensive literature to argue that what climate politics is—its basic sites, dynamics, relations, and forms—has changed significantly while our understanding of this phenomenon has also evolved. At the outset, climate politics involved a relatively narrow set of actors engaged in governing primarily through international institutions and focused on a modest array of policy instruments to generate shifts in a limited range of human activities. Now it encompasses multiple sites, manifold processes, and myriad actors, increasingly governing the full range of human activity and natural systems, denoting a shift
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallThe Changing Contours of Climate Politics2026-05-07text/htmlen-USThe Changing Contours of Climate Politics2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®1489832026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989781
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A growing scientific consensus is calling for rapidly and fairly phasing out fossil fuel production to achieve the Paris Agreement’s targets (Achakulwisut, Erickson et al. 2023; Calverley and Anderson 2022; Trout et al. 2022). At the Conference of the Parties (COP) 28, for the first time, countries agreed on “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly, and equitable manner” (Sanderson 2023, 484). Yet the world’s governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 permissible under 1.5°C temperature goals (Achakulwisut, Lazarus et al. 2023, 4; Stockholm Environment Institute et al. 2023). Governments must therefore move from solely reducing the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallPower in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production2026-05-07text/htmlen-USPower in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®1390112026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07China in Twenty-Five Years of Global Environmental Politics: The Case of Climate Diplomacy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989782
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China’s role in global environmental politics (GEP) has evolved dramatically over the past twenty-five years to occupy an increasingly paradoxical role in global climate politics. Domestically, it has emerged as the world’s largest builder of renewable energy capacity, spearheading solar, wind, and electric vehicle industries. At the same time, it remains the world’s largest consumer of coal, and its approval of new coal plants continues apace. Internationally, China presents itself as both a leader of the Global South and a responsible great power, advancing ambitious long-term pledges, such as peaking emissions before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060, while resisting binding obligations on finance
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallChina in Twenty-Five Years of Global Environmental Politics: The Case of Climate Diplomacy2026-05-07text/htmlen-USChina in Twenty-Five Years of Global Environmental Politics: The Case of Climate Diplomacy2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®1377502026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07The Enduring Credibility Challenge of Long-Term Global Environmental Policy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989783
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Many global environmental political challenges are of a long-term nature, with actual performance often lagging behind the aspirations espoused in global environmental agreements. More than thirty years ago, the climate change, bio-diversity, and desertification conventions and the forest principles were signed at the 1992 Río “Earth Summit”; however, none of these four policy challenges appears “resolved.”4 The question is not whether these global environmental agreements have effectively solved the problems that prompted their creation but whether the long-term nature of this subgroup of global environmental chal-lenges affects our chances of successfully mitigating them.An initial effort to grapple with this
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallThe Enduring Credibility Challenge of Long-Term Global Environmental Policy2026-05-07text/htmlen-USThe Enduring Credibility Challenge of Long-Term Global Environmental Policy2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®1859382026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Historicizing Global Environmental Politics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989784
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Global environmental politics1 (GEP) is a well-established field that draws on several disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Since its inception in the 1970s, GEP has evolved into a mature scholarly enterprise, with a growing number of textbooks, handbooks, and journals promoting GEP research and teaching. There are good reasons to view it as a subdiscipline of international relations (IR) (O’Neill et al. 2013, 443; Zürn 1998). After all, the journal Global Environmental Politics (GEP), widely considered to be the leading journal in the field, was conceived at the 1999 International Studies Association (ISA) meeting, and the Environmental Studies Section of the ISA serves as the main institutional home
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallHistoricizing Global Environmental Politics2026-05-07text/htmlen-USHistoricizing Global Environmental Politics2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®1229662026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Supporting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Politics Research: A Call to Dialogue and Action
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989785
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Milestone anniversaries at academic journals are typically used to reflect on the state of the field or identify state-of-the-art developments in research. Such insights are often, if not exclusively, generated by established academic researchers, who are invited to reflect on their major, field-defining pieces of research (see Bell 2013) or to recall their own place in the arc of the journal’s history (Dauvergne and Clapp 2016).To celebrate twenty-five years of research with Global Environmental Politics (GEP), we were invited to contribute a piece that focused on the perspectives of early-career researchers (ECRs).1 As GEP was originally founded by a group of five ECRs (Dauvergne and Clapp 2016), making space
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallSupporting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Politics Research: A Call to Dialogue and Action2026-05-07text/htmlen-USSupporting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Politics Research: A Call to Dialogue and Action2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®616542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Teaching Global Environmental Politics: Looking Back to Move Forward
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989786
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Many (if not most) global environmental politics (GEP) scholars dedicate significant time and passion to teaching and education. In addition, teaching plays a fundamental role in the reflexive process of knowledge development, critiquing and sharing, and fostering future generations of professionals and agents of change (Leal Filho et al. 2023). Over its first twenty-five years, however, Global Environmental Politics has not engaged systematically with teaching and pedagogy.1The authors of this Forum article reflect on how GEP-related courses have been taught across the globe, often in relation to various other disciplines, such as international law, development studies, and environmental sciences. We bridge our
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallTeaching Global Environmental Politics: Looking Back to Move Forward2026-05-07text/htmlen-USTeaching Global Environmental Politics: Looking Back to Move Forward2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®575762026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Expanding What Constitutes Global, Environmental, and Politics: Twenty-Five Years of Books in GEP
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989787
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Reviewing the books reviewed in Global Environmental Politics (GEP) provides an opportunity for insight into the evolution of large-scale research projects in this field. This Forum examines the 502 books, published between 1998 and 2024, reviewed in the journal from issue 1(1) to issue 25(1).The journal publishes both single-book reviews and book review essays, the latter of which review several related books at once and allow more space to consider them in light of the broader context that connects them. In practice, book review essays come about when there are several related books published simultaneously. The selection process for review in either format prioritizes first books by scholars in the field (which
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallExpanding What Constitutes Global, Environmental, and Politics: Twenty-Five Years of Books in GEP2026-05-07text/htmlen-USExpanding What Constitutes Global, Environmental, and Politics: Twenty-Five Years of Books in GEP2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®612312026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Navigating a Climate-Changed World
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989788
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Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.The occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Global Environmental Politics (GEP) finds our community at a crossroads. We know a lot about the challenges humanity faces (maybe too much!) now and in the future, but we are living through them as well, making choices as experts, teachers, and humans as cli-mate change and other environmental crises unfold. How, then, do we, as scholars and as a community, navigate a climate-changed world?This question motivates this Forum at two levels. First, each of us in the GEP community is already navigating a climate-changed world, whether
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallNavigating a Climate-Changed World2026-05-07text/htmlen-USNavigating a Climate-Changed World2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®664002026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Foresting Global Environmental Politics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989789
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In this Forum article, a group of women from different regions delves into foresting, another way to understand and live with forests and other biomes, a shift that places us in a relationship with the more-than-human world. The noun forest has many meanings, with more than 1,300 codified definitions worldwide. Sometimes defined as administrative units or as land areas with specific sizes and features (Vidal et al. 2008), forests are most often defined through their management objectives, such as sources of timber or carbon, or a set of ecological properties (Chazdon et al. 2016).Global environmental politics scholarship tends to approach forests through their regulatory definitions in a particular governance
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallForesting Global Environmental Politics2026-05-07text/htmlen-USForesting Global Environmental Politics2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®653942026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07The Global Environmental Politics of Resistance, Revisited
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989790
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Twenty-five years ago, a lively debate in the first issue of Global Environmental Politics (GEP) focused on “Globalization and Resistance.” Contributions examined how social movements and progressive greens could respond to globalization while advancing social justice and environmental protection (Dryzek 2001; Lipschutz 2001; Paehlke 2001). In the years since, the global political, economic, and biotic landscape has shifted dramatically; yet resistance, we argue, remains a potent political concept.We revisit questions of resistance amid our current conjuncture, especially considering global trends toward nationalism and antiliberal politics. On the basis of a series of conversations begun in early 2025, we ask how
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallThe Global Environmental Politics of Resistance, Revisited2026-05-07text/htmlen-USThe Global Environmental Politics of Resistance, Revisited2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®955842026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989791
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The intersection between geopolitics—broadly defined as the competitive practices of powerful states to control key resources—and environmental governance has long been an important issue for researchers of global environmental politics (GEP).1 However, since the 1990s, the GEP literature has had a strong focus on international cooperation and institutions, with only a small number of studies published by the journal Global Environmental Politics directly assessing the interplay between geopolitics and environmental policy and governance (Webster, this issue).2 Over the past decade, fundamental changes in world politics have occurred on numerous fronts, characterized by growing tensions between powerful states, as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/219/image/coversmallGlobal Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence2026-05-07text/htmlen-USGlobal Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence2026-05-072026TWOProject MUSE®965082026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-05-07