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Tables of Contents for Transboundary Environmental Problems and Cultural Theory
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures and Tables
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Foreword
xiii
Professor Mary Douglas
Introduction
1
14
A very brief history of the study of international relations
1
3
The aims of this research
4
2
Overview of the book
6
2
The logic and limits of this research
8
3
The nuts and bolts of this research
11
1
A note on terminology
12
3
PART I THEORY
Grid-Group Theory and the Study of International Relations
15
24
The constructivist challenge
15
3
Grid-group theory
18
12
Conceptual challenges and problems
30
3
Grid-group theory and constructivism
33
4
Conclusion: possible uses of grid-group analysis in (international) political theory
37
2
Regimes, Institutions and Four Cultures
39
32
International regimes and regime theory
40
3
Institutions and the new institutionalism
43
5
The theoretical model of this research
48
3
Four international ways of life
51
15
Three propositions
66
5
PART II CULTURES MATTER
A Watershed on the Rhine
71
38
A puzzle
71
3
Change of international regimes
74
4
A view of the Rhine
78
3
1976-86: a hierarchical international regime
81
9
1987-95: an international regime based on two ways of life
90
10
1995 and beyond: towards an international regime based on three ways of life
100
7
Conclusion
107
2
Who has Washed the River Rhine?
109
46
Introduction
109
2
The puzzle
111
11
Possible explanations
122
12
A cultural explanation
134
15
Conclusion
149
6
PART III INSTITUTIONS MATTER AS WELL
Why is the Rhine Cleaner than the Great Lakes?
155
55
Introduction
155
5
Scene-setting: the Great Lakes
160
5
A puzzle
165
8
The comparability of the two cases
173
1
Voluntary steps versus feet-dragging
174
10
A historical-institutional answer
184
2
The domestic level, part 1: American exceptionalism
186
2
The domestic level, part 2: state-society arrangements
188
13
The international level: the role of the International Joint Commission
201
2
Which institutional answer is the right one?
203
2
What might work best?
205
3
Conclusion
208
2
Conclusion: Cultures and Institutions Both Matter in Transboundary Relations
210
14
Cultures matter
210
2
Institutions matter as well
212
2
When cultures and institutions matter together
214
2
How to explain a paradox
216
3
Appendices
A Interviews with Stakeholders in the Environmental Protection of the Rhine
219
2
B Interviews with Stakeholders in the Environmental Protection of the Great Lakes
221
3
Notes
224
29
Index
253