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Section editor: M.J. Peterson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ecofeminism and Global Environmental Politics Environment and Development Environment and Security Environmental Activism Environmental Justice Environmental Sustainability/Sufficiency Forests and Desertification Globalization and the Environment: There Must Be Some Way Out of Here International Cooperation on Hazardous Substances and Wastes International Regulation of Ocean Pollution and Ocean Fisheries International Relations and the Study of Global Environmental Politics: Past and Present International Relations Theory and the Environment The Politics of Climate Change The Politics of International Freshwater Resources Regional Governance and Environmental Problems Teaching Global Environmental Politics Transnational Corporations and the Global Environment The United States and International Environmental Politics M.J. Peterson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst For both the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century founders of international studies and the mid-twentieth-century systems theorists of politics, the word “environment” denoted the general surroundings – the entire ideational and material context – within which international politics occurred. Culture, beliefs, ideologies, technologies, human nature, geography, climate, natural ... log in or subscribe to read full text