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This 4 page paper looks at the way that environmentalism and concern for green issues has impacted in the practice of international relations and the concepts of international relations theory. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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in environmental issues impacting on international relations theory. As environmental issues are not limited by national boarders; polluted water will flow into the seas and cross boarders, polluted air may
traverse many countries prior to dissipating and the potential for climate change as inherent global impacts. These issues have a natural presence in international concerns so it is natural to
find them in international relations theory. It was in the 1990s that environmental issues started to emerge in international relations theory, following the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment
and Development (UNCED). It was as this point the subject became a sub-discipline within the subject (Jakobsen, 1999, p206). Today green international relations theory exists (Patterson, 2008, p250). Initially the
green agenda was approached through the framework of liberalism and institutional liberalism; have the greatest alignment with these schools of thought. The realism approach was more pessimistic seeing nation states
acting out of self interest in a manner, in an approach which may see shifting of issues rather than the cooperation which is generally agreed as necessary. However, liberalist approaches
have also been criticism as being ineffective in deal with the issues, accepting policies and strategies that undermine environmental integrity (Steans, 2010, p49). When looking at the way in
which environmental or green issues arise in international relations theory it may be argued that there are two approaches; anthropocentrism and ecocentrism (Steans, 2010, p220). The dominant paradigm appears to
be anthropocentrism. This is seen as a human centric approach (Steans, 2010, p220). It may also be argued as a dualistic view of nature, this is demonstrated by definition given
by Eckersley (1992, p51) that it is "the belief that there is a clear and morally relevant dividing line between humankind and the rest of nature, that humankind is the
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