Abstract
Industrialization, modernization and technological breakthrough are posing a greater challenge in contemporary international politics. They have paved a new dimension in the study of international relations and politics in the area of environmental security, cooperation and even interdependence. This paper is a critical theoretical approach to the study of international green politics, encompassing the nature of international cooperation at a collective level towards providing a better solution to the green gas emission. It analyses the politics that holds in the interplay among states as it relates to national interests, group identity and legalistic and moralistic approach to the study of international green politics. it is part of the findings of this paper that, despite the theoretical exposition of political variables from the angles of classical realism, the advanced capitalist countries especially the United States, still maintain the rationality of national interest and what can be economically termed as ‘national wealth’ rather than the collective bargaining of the united nations; not compromising the national interests with what is obtainable from the outcome of the collective cooperative principles of nation states as they relate to climate change (Kyoto protocol and Copenhagen summit resolutions). The paper concludes that, if the third world countries continue to slumber, the advanced economies of Europe and America will continue to machinate against their population in saving the climate and capitalize on that to create a new global economic and political hegemony, among other things. The paper recommends prudence in dealing with issues that relate to climate change and due consideration be given to the developing states interalia. Key words: Kyoto to Copenhagen, politics of climate change, international green politics, theoretical approach, cooperation, dependency.
Highlights
While the issue of global climate change has become of collective concern, there is no nation or state within the international political realm that is not affected
With the previous conferences,seminars and summits organized by the United Nations, at providing a better solution to the issue, the constructivist are of the view that, international politics is taking a new dimension as there exists a shift from the classical realism to what nation states ought to do about the problem of climate change
Notwithstanding, the deconstructionists believe that, there is the need for a shift in international politics-theories from explaining the opened rationality and intentions of statesmen to what is called ‘hiding intentions’, but the realists stipulate that, in any explanation of international politics, the school of realism can not be discarded; while the liberalists theorists think, realism is obsolete and can not be applied in explaining ‘international politics of climate change’ but rather, the UN has proven that organizations and legal framework hold in a case that deals with climate change
Summary
While the issue of global climate change has become of collective concern, there is no nation or state within the international political realm that is not affected. The major concern is that, some advanced countries have maintained and still maintaining the position of national interest (political interest on a rational ground), while others relatively maintain a moralistic approach to the issue of global warming and climate change. With the previous conferences ,seminars and summits organized by the United Nations, at providing a better solution to the issue, the constructivist are of the view that, international politics is taking a new dimension as there exists a shift from the classical realism to what nation states ought to do about the problem of climate change. The liberalists uphold the issue of climate change from this particular perspective and call for the implementation of the legal frame work, which is an outcome of agreement reached by the members of the United Nations within the framework of international politics
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