Edited by Robert Falkner, Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Barry Buzan, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science

Robert Falkner is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include Environmentalism and Global International Security (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Barry Buzan is a Fellow of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor in the LSE Department of International Relations and a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. His publications include Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation (co-edted with Evelyn Goh, OUP, 2020), The Making of Global International Relations (with Amitav Acharya, Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Alina Averchenkova, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Katja Biedenkopf, University of Leuven.
Tim Boersma, Columbia University.
Claire Dupont, Ghent University.
Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne and Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Evelyn Goh, Australian National University.
Kathryn Hochstetler, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Sanna Kopra, University of Lapland.
Susan Park, University of Sydney.
Miriam Prys-Hansen, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA).
Shirley Scott, UNSW Canberra.
Diarmuid Torney, Dublin City University.
Stacy D. VanDeveer, University of Massachusetts Boston.
Pichamon Yeophantong, University of New South Wales (Canberra) - Australian Defence Force Academy.

"this fascinating and rich volume brings together a group of outstanding scholars to address an important set of questions for both IR and GEP scholarship. It opens up space to broaden and sharpen analyses of great green powers in the future, using the conceptual toolkit provided." - Manjana Milkoreit, Perspectives on Politics

"Falkner and Buzan provide a persuasive conceptual basis to understand the core challenges countries must overcome if equity and responsibility in international environmental policy are to be accepted and advanced by those with significant environmental great power." - Rebecca Peters, Chatham House, UK, International Affairs

"Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan have gathered a sterling set of contributors—11 of 16 of which are women—to advance their arguments and build a compelling framework...[they offer] a more global yet focused approach that will help academics and policy-makers grapple with environmental issues beyond country-specific analyses...contributors explore the relationship between great power status, the management of global international society and the nature of great power responsibility...This level of conceptual clarity is a welcome addition to the IR literature... Falkner and Buzan provide a persuasive conceptual basis to understand the core challenges countries must overcome if equity and responsibility in international environmental policy are to be accepted and advanced by those with significant environmental great power." - Rebecca Peters, International Affairs