Indispensability and indefensibility? The United States in the climate treaty negotiations

被引:23
作者
Agrawala, S [1 ]
Andresen, S [1 ]
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[1] Columbia Univ, Int Res Inst Climate Predict, Climate Applicat Div, New York, NY 10027 USA
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10.1163/19426720-00504004
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D81 [国际关系];
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030207 ;
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The United States has a penchant these days for joining international negotiations that spin out of control. We went to Kyoto to talk about climate change and discovered we couldn't sign the treaty. We went to Ottawa to talk about landmines and found our military problems ignored by other states. We may be the "indispensable country," as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright likes to say. But we often set ourselves up as Alamo holdouts, criticized as the indispensable country with indefensible positions.
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