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In this engaging book, Alexander Ovodenko argues that treaty negotiators face a much tougher task when trying to regulate polluters in competitive markets than those in oligopolistic markets. Ovodenko uses strong theory and compelling empirical analysis to shed important new light on the rational design of international institutions. --Ronald B. Mitchell, author of Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance and International Politics and the Environment Regulating the Polluters offers important new insights into the problem of global environmental governance. Through painstaking empirical research, Ovodenko shows that industries with few large players are easier to regulate in international negotiations. The book not only sheds light on why some environmental agreements succeed and others fail, but also offers constructive ideas for better policy to safeguard the planet from harm. --Johannes Urpelainen, Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy Resources and Environment, Johns Hopkins SAIS

Ovodenko (George Washington) provides a thoughtful, rigorous analysis of global environmental governance. This well-organized and readable volume presents a market theory of environmental regime design...This volume is accessible to beginning and advanced researchers, and students seeking to gain an understanding of specific global environmental issues (commercial shipping and aviation, etc.) or of a fully developed, nuanced model explaining the development of international environmental regimes. Recommended. --CHOICE In this engaging book, Alexander Ovodenko argues that treaty negotiators face a much tougher task when trying to regulate polluters in competitive markets than those in oligopolistic markets. Ovodenko uses strong theory and compelling empirical analysis to shed important new light on the rational design of international institutions. --Ronald B. Mitchell, author of Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance and International Politics and the Environment Regulating the Polluters offers important new insights into the problem of global environmental governance. Through painstaking empirical research, Ovodenko shows that industries with few large players are easier to regulate in international negotiations. The book not only sheds light on why some environmental agreements succeed and others fail, but also offers constructive ideas for better policy to safeguard the planet from harm. --Johannes Urpelainen, Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy Resources and Environment, Johns Hopkins SAIS As a theory-building book, Regulating the Polluters remains valuable despite leaving the reader wondering what other factors may account for some of the empirical examples raised. Certainly it shows that students of international environmental politics must consider the structure of markets in order to understand how business interests may shape regulatory outcomes. In this way, Ovodenko provides an important theoretical argument to the growing literature on international regulation. - Thomas Hale, University of Oxford, UK

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Alexander Ovodenko is an Energy Industry Analyst at the U.S. Department of Energy and a Professional Lecturer at The George Washington University.

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