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This brief book is the perfect primer on the challenge of climate change and the politics that will shape how we design and adopt solutions to it. Regan gives us an informative, accessible, succinct, and yet comprehensive introduction to climate change as a collective action dilemma, the failure to date to address it adequately, lessons from comparable success stories in global environmental policy, and a realistic political path forward for a climate change policy that can work. -Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay The author revives rational choice theory in a way that can aid not only in understanding why climate negotiations failed, largely due to U.S. domestic politics, but in understanding how it can actually be rational to adopt costly mitigation measures... The extensive look at U.S. Congressional politics gives a unique entree into U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis international climate negotiations. This is an important contribution to the field. -Theresa Jedd, Colorado State University This brief book is the perfect primer on the challenge of climate change and the politics that will shape how we design and adopt solutions to it. Regan gives us an informative, accessible, succinct, and yet comprehensive introduction to climate change as a collective action dilemma, the failure to date to address it adequately, lessons from comparable success stories in global environmental policy, and a realistic political path forward for a climate change policy that can work. -Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay The author revives rational choice theory in a way that can aid not only in understanding why climate negotiations failed, largely due to U.S. domestic politics, but in understanding how it can actually be rational to adopt costly mitigation measures... The extensive look at U.S. Congressional politics gives a unique entree into U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis international climate negotiations. This is an important contribution to the field. -Theresa Jedd, Colorado State University

"""This brief book is the perfect primer on the challenge of climate change and the politics that will shape how we design and adopt solutions to it. Regan gives us an informative, accessible, succinct, and yet comprehensive introduction to climate change as a collective action dilemma, the failure to date to address it adequately, lessons from comparable success stories in global environmental policy, and a realistic political path forward for a climate change policy that can work."" -- Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay ""The author revives rational choice theory in a way that can aid not only in understanding why climate negotiations failed, largely due to U.S. domestic politics, but in understanding how it can actually be rational to adopt costly mitigation measures... The extensive look at U.S. Congressional politics gives a unique entrée into U.S. foreign policy vis-à -vis international climate negotiations. This is an important contribution to the field."" -- Theresa Jedd, Colorado State University “This brief book is the perfect primer on the challenge of climate change and the politics that will shape how we design and adopt solutions to it. Regan gives us an informative, accessible, succinct, and yet comprehensive introduction to climate change as a collective action dilemma, the failure to date to address it adequately, lessons from comparable success stories in global environmental policy, and a realistic political path forward for a climate change policy that can work.” —Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay “The author revives rational choice theory in a way that can aid not only in understanding why climate negotiations failed, largely due to U.S. domestic politics, but in understanding how it can actually be rational to adopt costly mitigation measures. . . . The extensive look at U.S. Congressional politics gives a unique entrée into U.S. foreign policy vis-à-vis international climate negotiations. This is an important contribution to the field.” —Theresa Jedd, Colorado State University"

This brief book is the perfect primer on the challenge of climate change and the politics that will shape how we design and adopt solutions to it. Regan gives us an informative, accessible, succinct, and yet comprehensive introduction to climate change as a collective action dilemma, the failure to date to address it adequately, lessons from comparable success stories in global environmental policy, and a realistic political path forward for a climate change policy that can work. -- Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay The author revives rational choice theory in a way that can aid not only in understanding why climate negotiations failed, largely due to U.S. domestic politics, but in understanding how it can actually be rational to adopt costly mitigation measures... The extensive look at U.S. Congressional politics gives a unique entree into U.S. foreign policy vis-a -vis international climate negotiations. This is an important contribution to the field. -- Theresa Jedd, Colorado State University

This brief book is the perfect primer on the challenge of climate change and the politics that will shape how we design and adopt solutions to it. Regan gives us an informative, accessible, succinct, and yet comprehensive introduction to climate change as a collective action dilemma, the failure to date to address it adequately, lessons from comparable success stories in global environmental policy, and a realistic political path forward for a climate change policy that can work. -- Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay The author revives rational choice theory in a way that can aid not only in understanding why climate negotiations failed, largely due to U.S. domestic politics, but in understanding how it can actually be rational to adopt costly mitigation measures... The extensive look at U.S. Congressional politics gives a unique entree into U.S. foreign policy vis-a -vis international climate negotiations. This is an important contribution to the field. -- Theresa Jedd, Colorado State University This brief book is the perfect primer on the challenge of climate change and the politics that will shape how we design and adopt solutions to it. Regan gives us an informative, accessible, succinct, and yet comprehensive introduction to climate change as a collective action dilemma, the failure to date to address it adequately, lessons from comparable success stories in global environmental policy, and a realistic political path forward for a climate change policy that can work. -Michael E. Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay The author revives rational choice theory in a way that can aid not only in understanding why climate negotiations failed, largely due to U.S. domestic politics, but in understanding how it can actually be rational to adopt costly mitigation measures. . . . The extensive look at U.S. Congressional politics gives a unique entree into U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis international climate negotiations. This is an important contribution to the field. -Theresa Jedd, Colorado State University

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Patrick M. Regan is Professor of Peace Studies and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

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