Climate Change Bandwagoning: the impacts of strategic linkages on regime design, maintenance, and death
While international discussions began in earnest in 1992 with the creation of a United Nations (UN) convention on the topic,1 global climate change politics has recently risen sharply in political importance, infusing diplomatic discussions well beyond the boundaries of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). For example, in the summer of 2009 alone, climate change issues featured prominently on the agenda of the US-China bilateral discussions in Washington; were the topic of a week-long UN Summit in New York; and were a central focus of the G8 meetings in both L’Aquila, Italy and Pittsburgh, USA. As a further indication of this trend, media attention to climate change issues has also risen sharply in recent years with climate change stories featuring prominently in leading newspapers across the globe. The contributions in this special issue provide initial guidance on how we might bandwagon better as we continue to tackle not only the complexities associated with climate change, but the increasingly crowded and complex terrain of global governance more broadly. For full text: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/GLEP_a_00065