Green theory
{{Short description|Environmental theory of international relations}}
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Green theory is a theory of international relations (IR). In contrast to mainstream theories of IR, it posits environmental issues as central to the study of international relations. According to green theory, mainstream theories like neorealism and neoliberalism fail to understand environmental problems through their rationalist and state-centric frameworks of analysis. Green theory focuses on the study of global justice, international development, modernization, and security.{{sfn|Eckersley|2007|p=247}} Green perspectives in IR emerged in the 1970s as a response to the increase of transnational issues related to the environment. By the end of the 20th century, green theory had established itself within the discipline.{{sfn|Eckersley|2007|p=248}} Green theory aligns itself with postpositivism that emerged from the so-called third (or fourth) debate of IR. The theory can be divided into an international political economy-oriented wing and a cosmopolitan wing.{{sfn|Eckersley|2007|p=255}} Initially, the IPE wing,{{sfn|Eckersley|2007|p=262}} mainly interested in environmental regimes,{{sfn|Eckersley|2007|p=255}} was stronger, but subsequently many cosmopolitan theorists, like David Held, Andrew Linklater, Henry Shue, and Thomas Pogge, have made contributions related to environmental issues.{{sfn|Eckersley|2007|p=262}}
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=Works cited=
- {{cite book|last=Eckersley|first=Robyn|year=2007|chapter-url=http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199298334/dunne_chap13.pdf|chapter=Green Theory|title=International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity|editor-last1=Dunne|editor-first1=Tim|editor-last2=Kurki|editor-first2=Milja|editor-last3=Smith|editor-first3=Steve|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-929833-4|pages=247–265|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015105138/http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199298334/dunne_chap13.pdf|archive-date=2012-10-15}}
Further reading
- {{cite book|last=Dyer|first=Hugh C.|chapter=Green Theory|editor-last1=McGlinchey|editor-first1=Stephen|editor-last2=Walters|editor-first2=Rosie|editor-last3=Scheinpflug|editor-first3=Christian|title=International Relations Theory|url=https://www.e-ir.info/publication/international-relations-theory/#.pdf|date=2017|location=Bristol|publisher=E-International Relations|isbn=978-1-910814-20-8|pages=84–90}}
- {{cite book|last=Lawson|first=Stephanie|title=Theories of International Relations: Contending Approaches to World Politics|year=2015|location=Cambridge|publisher=Polity Press|isbn=978-0-7456-9513-6|chapter=Green Theory}}
- {{cite book|last1=Paterson|first1=Matthew|last2=Doran|first2=Peter|last3=Barry|first3=John|chapter=Green Theory|editor-last=Hay | editor-first=C. | editor-last2=Lister | editor-first2=M. | editor-last3=Marsh | editor-first3=D. | title=The State: Theories and Issues | location = Basingstoke | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | year=2010 | isbn=978-0-230-80227-8 |pages=135–154}}
- {{cite book|last=Paterson|first=Matthew|chapter=Green Politics|editor-last1=Burchill|editor-first1=Scott|editor-last2=Linklater|editor-first2=Andrew|title=Theories of International Relations|edition=5th|year=2013|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=Basingstoke|isbn=978-1-137-31136-8|pages=266–290}}
- {{cite book|last1=Steans|first1=Jill|last2=Pettiford|first2=Lloyd|last3=Diez|first3=Thomas|last4=El-Anis|first4=Imad|title=An Introduction to International Relations Theory: Perspectives and Themes|edition=3rd|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-1-317-86299-4|chapter=Green Perspectives}}
- {{cite book|last1=Tienhaara|first1=Kyla|last2=Downie|first2=Christian|chapter=Green Theory and the G20|editor-last1=Slaughter|editor-first1=Steven|title=The G20 and International Relations Theory|year=2019|location=Cheltenham|publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing|isbn=978-1-78643-265-0|pages=183–209}}
- {{cite book|last=Vogler|first=John|year=2020|chapter=Environmental Issues|title=The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations|edition=8th|editor-last1=Baylis|editor-first1=John|editor-last2=Smith|editor-first2=Steve|editor-last3=Owens|editor-first3=Patricia|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-882554-8|pages=387–403}}
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