Robert Falkner (editor) - Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities

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This book has its origins in a workshop on Great Power Responsibility and Global Environmental Protection that we convened in June 2018. Hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the two-day workshop brought together 12 scholars to discuss how existing and emerging global powers have defined their responsibilities towards the global environment. We are grateful to all presenters and discussants that participated in the workshop, including Steven Bernstein, Nicholas Chan, Carlotta Clivio, Heidi Wang-Kaeding, and Lucie Quian Xia.

The initial workshop would not have been possible without the generous funding provided by the LSEs Department of International Relations and the Grantham Research Institute. We are also grateful for the organizational support offered by the Grantham Research Institute, and especially Ginny Pavey, Zoe Williamson, and Stuart Rodgers.

A selection of the workshop papers was presented at the 2019 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in Toronto. The ISA panel on great power responsibility and global environmental protection provoked many helpful reactions and suggestions from the participants and audience members, and we are particularly grateful to the discussant, Andrew Hurrell, for his insightful comments on the conference papers.

When we first proposed the idea for this book to Oxford University Press (OUP), Dominic Byatt, the commissioning editor for politics and international relations at OUP, gave it an enthusiastic reception. We are grateful for his unwavering support and patience throughout the books gestation. Our thanks also go to the other members of OUPs editorial team for successfully steering the manuscript through the production process. We are particularly grateful to OUPs two anonymous reviewers, whose perceptive comments and suggestions greatly helped us to sharpen the focus of the book and improve the final product.

Finally, we thank Colin Vanelli and Achille Negrier, two undergraduate students in the Department of International Relations at LSE, for providing research assistance and helping us compile the index for the book.

Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan
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