Robert Falkner

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Falkner, Robert (2008) Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). [further details].

       [published in paperback in October 2009].

Falkner, Robert (ed) (2007) The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). [further details]

Falkner, Robert (2012) 'Global Environmentalism and the Greening of International Society', International Affairs vol. 88, forthcoming.

Falkner, Robert and Nico Jaspers (2012) 'Regulating Nanotechnologies: Risk, Uncertainty and the Global Governance Gap', in Global Environmental Politics vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 30-55. [download]

Falkner, Robert, Hannes Stephan and John Vogler (2010) 'International Climate Policy After Copenhagen: Towards a 'Building Blocks' Approach', in: Global Policy, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 252-62. [download]

Falkner, Robert and Aarti Gupta (2009) 'The limits of regulatory convergence: globalization and GMO politics in the South', International Environmental Agreements vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 113-133. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2007) 'The Political Economy of 'Normative Power' Europe: EU Environmental Leadership in International Biotechnology Regulation', in: Journal of European Public Policy vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 507-526. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2007) 'The Global Biotech Food Fight: Why the United States Got It So Wrong', in: Brown Journal of World Affairs 14(1), Fall/Winter: 99-110. [further details].

Falkner, Robert (2006) 'International Sources of Environmental Policy Change in China: The Case of Genetically Modified Food', in: The Pacific Review, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 473-94. [download]

Gupta, Aarti and Robert Falkner (2006) 'The Influence of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa', in: Global Environmental Politics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 23-55. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2005) 'American Hegemony and the Global Environment', in: International Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 585-99. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2004) 'The First Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety', in: Environmental Politics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 635-641. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2003) 'Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links', in: Global Environmental Politics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 72-87. [download]

Read D. Porter, Linda Breggin, Robert Falkner, John Pendergrass and Nico Jaspers (2012) 'Regulatory Responses to Scientific Uncertainty and Nanotechnology', in: The Nanotechnology Challenge: Creating Law and Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks, edited by D. Dana (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 379-415.

Linda Breggin, Robert Falkner, Read Porter, John Pendergrass and Nico Jaspers (2011), "Addressing the Risks of Nanomaterials under United States and European Union Regulatory Frameworks for Chemicals", in: Assessing Nanoparticle Risks to Human Health, edited by Gurumurthy Ramachandran (Waltham, MA: Elsevier Science), pp. 195-272.

Falkner, Robert (2010) 'Business and Global Climate Governance: A Neo-Pluralist Perspective', in Business and Global Governance, ed. by Morten Ougaard and Anna Leander (London: Routledge), pp. 99-117. [download]

Falkner, Robert, Linda Breggin, Nico Jaspers, John Pendergrass and Read Porter (2010) 'International coordination and cooperation: the next agenda in nanomaterials regulation', in: International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies, ed. by Graeme A. Hodge, Diana M. Bowman and Andrew D. Maynard (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar), pp. 508-524. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2009). 'The Troubled Birth of the "Biotech Century": Global Corporate Power and Its Limits', in: Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance, ed. by Jennifer Clapp and Doris Fuchs (Cambridge, MA, MIT Press), pp. 225-252. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2009) 'The Global Politics of Precaution: Explaining International Cooperation on Biosafety', in: Cooperating Without America: Theories and Case Studies of Non-hegemonic Regimes, ed. by Stefan Brem and Ken Stiles (London: Routledge), pp.105-122. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2008) 'Oelmultis als transnationale Akteure: Grundlagen und Grenzen globaler Firmenmacht', in: Weltvertraegliche Energiesicherheitspolitik. Jahrbuch Internationale Politik 2005/2006, ed. by Josef Braml et al. (Muenchen: Oldenbourg Verlag), pp. 345-349.

Falkner, Robert (2007) 'International Cooperation Against the Hegemon: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety', in: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law, ed. by Robert Falkner (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 15-33.

Falkner, Robert (2007) 'Internationalising Biotechnology Policy in China', in: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law, ed. by Robert Falkner (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 174-191.

Falkner, Robert (2005) 'The Business of Ozone Layer Protection: Corporate Power in Regime Evolution.' In: The Business of Global Environmental Governance, ed. by David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 105-134. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2004) 'Trading Food: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Organisms.' In: Trade Politics, 2^nd edition. Ed. by Brian Hocking and Steve McGuire (London: Routledge), pp. 249-260.

Falkner, Robert (2003) 'Adam Smith's Political Liberalism.' In: Von himmlischer Ordnung und weltlichen Problemen: Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Peter J. Opitz. edited by Mir A. Ferdowsi, Dietmar Herz and Marc Schattenmann (Munich: Wilhelm Fink), pp. 133-158.

Falkner, Robert (2002) 'Negotiating the Biosafety Protocol: The International Process.' In: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment and Development?, edited by Christoph Bail, Robert Falkner and Helen Marquard (London: RIIA/Earthscan), pp. 3-22.

Falkner, Robert (2002) 'Umwelt.' In: Die Vereinten Nationen: Entwicklung, Aktivitaeten, Perspektiven, edited by Dietmar Herz, Christian Jetzlsperger and Marc Schattenmann (Frankfurt/M.: Fischer), pp. 163-186.

Falkner, Robert (2001) 'Business Conflict and U.S. International Environmental Policy: Ozone, Climate, and Biodiversity', in: The Environment, International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy, edited by Paul G. Harris (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press), pp. 157-177. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2001) 'Genetic Seeds of Discord: The Transatlantic GMO Trade Conflict after the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.' in: Governing Food: Science, Safety and Trade, edited by Peter W.B. Phillips and Robert Wolfe (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press), pp. 149-161.

Falkner, Robert (2000) 'International Trade Conflicts over Agricultural Biotechnology.' In: The International Politics of Biotechnology: Investigating Global Futures, edited by Alan Russell and John Vogler (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp. 142-156.

Reports

Falkner, Robert (2010). Contribution to The Oil Crunch: A Wake-Up Call for the UK Economy. Second report of the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil & Energy Security (ITPOES), February 2010, pp. 27-30. [download full report]

Breggin, Linda, Robert Falkner, Nico Jaspers, John Pendergrass and Read Porter (2009). Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies: Towards Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation. Report. (London: Chatham House, September), 120 pages. [download]

Working papers and other publications

'Global Governance - The Rise of Non-state Actors'. A Background Report for the SOER 2010 Assessment of global megatrends. EEA Technical Report 4/2011. Copenhagen: European Environment Agency. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2010), 'Globalisation, Neopluralism and Multinodal Politics' (review of Rethinking World Politics: A Theory of Transnational Neopluralism, by Phil Cerny) in Journal of Power, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 452-8. [download]

Pendergrass, John, with Linda Breggin, Robert Falkner, Nico Jaspers, and Read Porter (2010) 'Consumer Labeling of Nanomaterials in the European Union and the United States', Environmental Law Review, February, 10117-8. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2010), 'Getting a Deal on Climate Change: Obama's Flexible Multilateralism', in: Obama Nation? US Foreign Policy One Year On, ed by Nicholas Kitchen (LSE IDEAS Special Report, January), pp. 37-41. [download]

Falkner, Robert, Linda Breggin, Nico Jaspers, John Pendergrass and Read Porter (2009). Consumer Labelling of Nanomaterials in the EU and US: Convergence or Divergence? EERG Briefing Paper 2009/03 (London: Chatham House, October), 12 pages. [download]

Falkner, Robert, Linda Breggin, Nico Jaspers, John Pendergrass and Read Porter (2009). Regulating Nanomaterials: A Transatlantic Agenda, EERG Briefing Paper 2009/02 (London: Chatham House), 8 pages. [download].

Falkner, Robert (2006) 'The European Union as a 'Green Normative Power'? EU Leadership in International Biotechnology Regulation', Center for European Studies Working Paper Series #140, Harvard University, November. [download]

Gupta, Aarti and Robert Falkner (2006) 'The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Domestic Implementation: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa' EEDP Briefing Paper 06/01 (London: Chatham House, March). [download]

Falkner, Robert and Aarti Gupta (2004) 'Implementing the Biosafety Protocol: Key Challenges.' Briefing Paper (London: Chatham House, November). [download]

Brack, Duncan, Robert Falkner and Judith Goll (2003) 'The Next Trade War? GM Products, the Cartagena Protocol and the WTO.' Briefing Paper No. 8 (London: Chatham House, September). [download]

Commentary and media

Falkner, Robert (2011) 'Behind the 2011 Oil Price Shock: Global Risks and Europe's Economic Woes', in: DNV Forum, no. 2, pp. 10-11. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2010) 'Crunch Time? Policy Options for Preventing an Oil Crisis', in: Britain in 2011. Annual Magazine of the Economic and Social Research Council, November, p. 11. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2010), 'The New Geopolitics of Climate Change after Copenhagen', in: World Economic Forum, Industry Vision, January. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2008) 'Who's Afraid of Nanotech?' The World Today, June, pp. 15-17. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2008) 'Le Retour du Geant Vert' Alternatives Internationales, June, pp. 53-54. [download]

Falkner, Robert (2005) 'China: Ecological Collapse Threatens.' The World Today, vol. 61, (August/September), pp. 32-34. [download]