This important volume sheds light on how the major Asian Global South states of India and China are asserting their leadership roles and responsibilities within the broader framework of global climate diplomacy, examining their governance efforts and ability to shape and manage global climate challenges.
This important volume sheds light on how the major Asian Global South states of India and China are asserting their leadership roles and responsibilities within the broader framework of global climate diplomacy, examining their governance efforts and ability to shape and manage global climate challenges.
Bridging international geopolitics and climate governance from a Global South perspective, the book looks in-depth at the internal dynamics, strategic positioning, and global interactions of China and India’s role in climate politics. Chapters analyse climate ties, intra-South rivalries, and cooperation efforts between neighbouring countries, providing region-specific case studies from the Middle East, Central and South Asia. The book also highlights the role of non-state actors in shaping climate governance. By critically examining the extent to which India and China exercise agency and responsibility in the global climate regime, the book attempts to challenge the prevailing assumptions about responsibility, hierarchy, and influence in global climate politics.
The book will be of value to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of international relations, governance, and climate change studies.
Introduction
Part 1 Climate Change and Responsibility
Chapter One: India, China, and the Question of Global South Leadership:
Responsibility, Differences, and Disputes
Chapter Two: Global South Agency in the International Climate Regime: Chinas
Status as a Responsible Great Power in the Spotlight
Chapter Three: China as a Responsible Alternative to the US in the Middle
East? The case of Iraqs water crisis
Chapter Four: Climate, Competition, and Cooperation: The Future of EU-China
Relations in the Electric Vehicle Era
Chapter Five: Competition or cooperation? China and India in South Asias
transition to clean and renewable energy in Nepal and Bangladesh
Part 2 Environmental Governance Responsibility
Chapter Six: The Environmental Governance and Water Management between
Kazakhstan and China: Mapping Responsible Approaches, Solutions, and
Instruments
Chapter Seven: Indias Environmental Responsibility in the Contested
Himalayan Frontier of Ladakh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh
Chapter Eight: Indias Approaches to Global Environmental Governance:
Resistance and Cooperation
Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska is a Research Fellow at the Asia Centre, University of Tartu, Estonia, and an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Civitas University, Warsaw, Poland.
Elo Süld is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia and Head of the Asian Center at the University of Tartu.
