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The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order

byJoanne Yao

Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental challenges has elevated international society’s relationship with the natural world into the theoretical limelight. The Ideal River combines archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of law and political science, The Ideal River explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. The Ideal River emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781526154385