POL SCI 5 Study Guide - Ozone Depletion, Kyoto Protocol, Montreal Protocol
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Introduction: perceived important and dramatically increased significance over the decade end of the cold war opened the view. Oil politics : shifts away from fossil fuels to alternative sources have political implications. Ex) winston churchill argued they needed to shift from coal to oil to maintain country"s military superiority had to think about political implications that ensued the shift. Ex) anglo persian oil company (bp) environmental policy, international politics, global market shifted even by a partial shift away from fossil fuels: us: take pressure off of import burdens, make us less dependent, All states are interested but boils down to a question of how much should one state burden because societies are likely to vary in their tolerance and risk. Int"l regime won"t work in this case because all states do not have shared assessments of the danger or opportunity: the supply of cooperation: numbers.
