Theoretical Frameworks Assessment on International Relations' Approaches to Climate Change

Climate Change and International Relations
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Climate Change and International Relations
The relationship among nations stays unstable consistently because of a range of problems that the world is facing. Issues including terrorism, use of natural resources, and cybersecurity concerns keep deteriorating relationships among nations. Presently, nations are blaming one another for one problem after another. With the endless blame games in play, it becomes challenging to hold a specific country responsible for specific problems. Lately, nations have found avenues of addressing the challenges that they face globally through avenues such as international treaties or regional integrations aimed at achieving the most desirable outcomes. There, however, are concerns that nations are engaged in the agreements or treaties to serve personal interests. To that effect, this paper explores one of the global concerns in the last three decades, climate change, and the efforts that nations have put forth to curb the challenges in the parlance of international relations. The paper delves into theoretical frameworks including realism, constructivism, and liberalism in assessing the approaches that various international relations efforts have delivered in combating climate change. Present trends are constituting increasing industrialization in the developing world and the normalcy by which climate change is addressed the understanding is that nations are more likely to delve into ills as long as such behaviors accord them power at the expense of their global partners.
Climate Change
Climate change has stayed at the center of global diplomacy for a while. It was in June 1988 when the issue of climate change was first brought to the limelight through a landmark testimony before the US Senate by James Hansen. Hansen noted that the global weather patterns were changing that the impacts would, in effect, affect the scope of human relations (Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Jollands, and Staudt, L2012). Hansen's testimony highlighted the dangers of climate change and linked it to human exploitation of carbon energy sources. In reality, it is easily the most complicated global policy issue. The debate has since continued deep into international relations circles. The chronological, spatial, and intellectual components of comprehending the political economics of climate change reflect this complexity. It's a stock pollution issue rather than a flow pollution issue. Historical industrial-country emissions are mingling with today's rapidly increasing emissions from developing countries (Kaul, 2013). The impacts of climate change are poised to escalate. Presently, scientists attribute the severity, frequency, and magnitude of global disasters to the impacts of climate change. The primary instigators of the problem are the rich industrialized nations, who will likely suffer less while the poor countries will likely suffer most from advances in climate change.
The conceptual dimension of climate change remains complex, with most countries basing their arguments on the complexities to shift the blames. Overall, climate change is a global issue both in its cause and effect dimensions. That is, global human activities a...