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Prepared for presentation at the annual conference of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, 16-19 March 2011. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the workshop on "The 2007-09 Financial Crisis and World Political Order", Cornell University, November 18-19, 2010. I would like to thank workshop participants and especially Gustavo Flores-Macias for helpful comments on the earlier version. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will examine several different visions of regional cooperation and their implications for environmental cooperation. Each represents a different vision of integration, includes different actors, and has generated different levels of support fro ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a conference paper about the production, consumption and trade of genetically modified soybeans in Mercosur, the Common Market of South America, that was presented for the panel Civil Society, Environment, and Development in Latin America at the 2005 International Studies Association Annual Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. It began with the existing global soybean chain, then moved to the inter-state level. The paper showed the multifaceted and still unpredictable nature of global governance of genetically modified organisms.

This paper will examine how social justice concerns have been used to frame the global environmental problematique. It will pay particular attention to the different ways this discourse has been used over different times and spaces, as well as by differe ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will explore the ways that globalization â€" conceived primarily as the spread of market-oriented economies around the world â€" has contributed to changes in the ways that political parties link downward, both to voters and to non-party social org ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes up the question of how multi-level governance arrangements emerge through a case study of environmental politics in the Mercosur free trade area. Overall, governance continues to be more concentrated at the national level in Mercosur than in the European Union, where the concept of multi-level governance was first observed in practice and described in theory. By mapping emerging practices and actors and noting on-going gaps in Mercosur?s environmental politics, this paper will contribute to understanding more general causes and consequences of such new governance arrangements. Several case studies ? of the politics of GMOs and transportation infrastructures ? will help to develop key concepts and arguments. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Does political democracy improve the quality of environmental politics? Can the process of democratization improve the quality of environmental politics? This paper will address these questions by drawing on two largely-independent literatures that should be more closely related. First, it will examine the arguments by political theorists and others who make claims on both sides of these questions ? those who argue that democracy, democratization, and participation are not only compatible with but also necessary for sustainable environmental protections and those who argue that the inclusive procedures of political democracy are incompatible with the demands of effective environmental protection. These claims will be used to generate hypotheses that will then be examined in the second part of the paper. Recent political transitions in the former Soviet bloc and in South America present ?real world experiments? for considering the quality of environmental politics in more and less democratic regimes. On balance, the paper will conclude that democracy and democratization generally increase the potential for improved environmental protection, but do not guarantee it. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]