Upholding the “island of high modernity”: the changing climate of American foreign policy

Peter Doran*

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Abstract

In the early hours of Thursday, 11 December 1997, in the Japanese city of Kyoto, the Executive-Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), Michael Zammit Cutajar, selected a poem for me to sum up his thoughts on negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change:

Falling into the Moon’s reflection

From a single petal

Rings of waves

Blown by the breeze

Touching each life
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationClimate change and American foreign policy
EditorsPaul G. Harris
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages51-70
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9781137120809
ISBN (Print)9780333946879, 97811375725-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2016

Bibliographical note

Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences
  • General Environmental Science

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