Dear Colleagues, I hope the following book publication is of interest to some of you. Please be in touch if you have any questions or would like to write a book review.
Milkoreit, Manjana. Mindmade Politics: The Cognitive Roots of International Climate Governance. MIT Press, 2017. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/mindmade-politics Mindmade Politics takes a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex and contentious dynamics of global climate politics. Manjana Milkoreit argues that integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into multilateral cooperation (or the lack of it) on climate change and the process of negotiating climate agreements. Drawing on interviews with participants in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Milkoreit examines the thoughts, beliefs, and emotions of individuals and groups, focusing on the mental mechanisms connecting decision-relevant factors and observed political behavior. Mindmade Politics offers a brief introduction to international relations theory as it concerns the global politics of climate change; outlines the basic cognitive theories and concepts the author applies in her analysis, and describes an integrated methodological approach for cognitive-political analysis. The book presents four cognitive-affective lessons for global change politics and it identifies six major belief systems driving negotiators. Utilizing recent advances in cognitive science, Milkoreit builds a theoretical bridge between two major disciplines that will benefit both scholars and practitioners. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071GSLDYP Best wishes, Manjana Milkoreit Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Purdue University Tel: (765) 494-63921 [email protected] @ManjanaM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
