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Fifth edition of Global Gender Politics by ESS author Anne Sisson Runyan
Runyan, A.S. (Forthcoming 2019). Global gender politics. New York, NY: Routledge. Global Gender Politics analyzes the gendered divisions of power, labor, and resources that contribute to the global crises of representation, violence, and sustainability. The author emphasizes how hard-won attention to gender and other related inequalities in world affairs is simultaneously being jeopardized by new and old authoritarianisms and depoliticized through reducing gender to a binary and a problem-solving tool in global governance. The author examines gendered insecurities produced by the pursuit of international security and gendered injustices in the global political economy and sees promise in transnational struggles for global justice. Read the full post (147 words, 1 image)
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New Routledge book by ESS author Judith Nora Hardt
Hardt, J.N. (2018). Environmental security in the Anthropocene: Assessing theory and practice. New York, NY: Routledge. Read the full post (197 words, 1 image)
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New book from Fuzuo Wu from Aalborg University, Denmark
Wu, F. (2018). Energy and climate policies in China and India: A two-level comparative study. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. The book explores the proactive and reactive features of China and India’s domestic and foreign policies to address two intertwined challenges: first, China and India have taken policy measures that accord with their own domestic priorities; second, both countries have had to alter the trajectory of their proactive policy measures as a result of external pressures. The book argues that China and India’s proactive and reactive policy measures to address energy insecurity and climate change have been shaped by their two-level pressures. At the domestic/unit level, both countries have had…
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Green Keynesianism and the global financial crisis by ESS author Kyla Tienhaara
Tienhaara, K. (2018). Green Keynesianism and the global financial crisis. New York, NY: Routledge. It is widely accepted that limiting climate change to 2°C will require substantial and sustained investments in low-carbon technologies and infrastructure. However, the dominance of market fundamentalism in economic thinking for the past three decades has meant that governments have generally viewed large spending programs as politically undesirable. In this context, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) represented a huge opportunity for proponents of public investment in environmental projects or “Green Keynesianism”. Read the full post (232 words, 1 image)
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New book by ESS authors John S. Dryzek and Jonathan Pickering
Dryzek, J.S., & Pickering, J. (Forthcoming 2019). The politics of the Anthropocene. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Read the full post (251 words, 1 image)
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New book by ESS author Cristina M. Balboa
Cristina M. Balboa is Associate Professor at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York. This is her most recent publication. Balboa, C. M. (2018). The paradox of scale: How NGOs build, maintain, and lose authority in environmental governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Read the full post (163 words, 1 image)