UID:
almafu_9960950864602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 338 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
0-262-34057-7
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0-262-34058-5
Inhalt:
How integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into the effectiveness of climate negotiations. Mindmade Politics takes a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex and contentious dynamics of global climate politics. Manjana Milkoreit argues that integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into multilateral cooperation (or the lack of it) on climate change and the process of negotiating climate agreements. Milkoreit argues that cognition is at the root of all political behavior and decision making. Some of the most important variables of international relations scholarship -- the motivations of political actors -- are essentially cognitive variables. Drawing on interviews with participants in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Milkoreit examines the thoughts, beliefs, and emotions of individuals and groups, focusing on the mental mechanisms connecting decision-relevant factors and observed political behavior. Milkoreit offers a brief introduction to international relations theory and key insights regarding the politics of climate change; outlines the basic cognitive theories and concepts that she applies in her analysis, discussing the cognitive challenges of climate change; and describes the integrated methodological approach she used for her cognitive-political analysis. She presents four cognitive-affective lessons for global change politics, including the "cognitive triangle" of three major concerns of climate negotiators -- threat, identity, and justice -- and she identifies six major belief systems driving negotiators. Finally, she offers guidance for climate governance based on her findings. Utilizing recent advances in cognitive science, Milkoreit builds a theoretical bridge between two major disciplines that will benefit both scholars and practitioners.
Anmerkung:
The science and politics of tears -- A cognitive approach to international relations -- Methodology: new and established tools to explore subjectivity -- The central arguments -- The cognitive triangl e: cost, identity and justice -- The relevance of structure -- Science in climate change negotiations -- Agency and hope -- A guide to the book -- The promise of a cognitive approach -- What is cognition? -- Theories of mental representation -- Building blocks of cognitive theory -- Cognition and emotion -- Linking individual and collective cognition -- Linking cognition and social-material realities -- Cognition and international politics -- Cognition and climate change -- Climate change: a cognitive challenge SUI generis? -- Special problem characteristics -- Cognitive responses to special problem characteristics -- Limits of a cognitive approach -- A cognitive framework for political analysis -- Methods and tools for cognitive social science -- Participant selection -- The selection process -- Cognitive-affective mapping -- The nature and limitations of cognitive-affective maps -- Q method -- The process of doing q -- Application -- Synergies -- Four cognitive-affective lessons for global climate change politics -- The cognitive triangle: threat, identity, and justice -- Threat perceptions -- Collective identities -- Notions of justice -- Linking the corners of the triangle -- The third image in global climate negotiations -- Global power structures -- The two-level game -- Realism's eternal wisdom? -- Does science matter when you negotiate the climate? -- The science-policy disconnect -- The goal of climate governance -- Dealing with complexity -- Time, the future and a dearth of imagination -- Agency and hope : key ingredients for changing the world -- Defining agency -- Agency and national interests -- Agency and time -- Agency and hope -- Six belief systems : more alike than not? -- General observations -- General data patterns -- Six factors -- Factor a: multilateralism champions -- Factor b: un skeptics -- Factor c: utilizing the market -- Factor d: the power of individuals -- Factor e: climate justice -- Factor f: spotlight on the west -- Comparative assessment -- A practitioner's guide -- Understand, analyze and strategize -- Meaning-making -- The big picture -- Strengthen your agency -- Tackle science -- Engage your national scientific community -- Marry science and politics -- Pay attention to climate tipping points -- Time and the future -- Thoughts that make the future -- Cognition in global climate politics -- The nature of cognition -- The nature of political belief systems -- Special problem characteristics of climate change -- Other cognitive challenges -- Six belief systems -- Negotiation process, political strategy and science communication -- The science and politics of tears -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-262-03630-4
Sprache:
Englisch
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