Westphalian sovereignty and the free-rider conundrum in the atmospheric commons: examining global governance regimes for addressing climate change adaptation

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Efforts to establish an effective global climate change governance regime with universal applicability have been confronted by the resilience of the Westphalian construct of the modern state which prioritizes territorial sovereignty and national interests over global governance priorities. When facing demands for conformity to climate change governance frameworks crafted at the global level, most nation states often hide behind ideological justifications of wanting to have ultimate control over their own affairs, with the specific intention to exclude any other authorities from interfering in ‘domestic politics` (see Walker, 1993; Caporaso, 2000). The authors explore and . . .

 



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