Academic Catalog

PSIR510 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Course Code: 3540510
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 0.0
Department: Political Science And International Relations
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Masters
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Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

A brief history of international environmental regulation; varieties of international environmental agreements (IEAs); the concept of the -international- in IEAs; international environmental regulatory institutions; why is there no World Environmental Organisations; the concept of the global in global environmental change; the concept of crisis in -global environmental crisis-; varieties of global environmentalism; discourses of the earth; global environmental movements; linking the local and the global; sustainability and development on a global scale.