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  • Falkner, Robert (2025). Historicizing global environmental politics. Global Environmental Politics, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1162/GLEP.a.718 picture_as_pdf
  • Falkner, Robert (2024). The longue durée of international environmental norm change: global environmental politics meets the English School of international relations. Global Environmental Politics, 24(1), 124 - 137. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00718 picture_as_pdf
  • Falkner, Robert (2023). Weaponised energy and climate change: assessing Europe’s response to the Ukraine war. LSE Public Policy Review, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.78 picture_as_pdf
  • Falkner, Robert (2023). Change in global environmental politics temporal focal points and the reform of international institutions. By Michael W. Manulak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 280p. $110.00 cloth. - Fixing the climate: strategies for an uncertain world. By Charles F. Sabel and David G. Victor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 256p. $24.95 cloth. Perspectives on Politics, 21(2), 779 - 781. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723000014
  • Falkner, Robert, Nasiritousi, Naghmeh, Reischl, Gunilla (2022). Climate clubs politically feasible and desirable? Climate Policy, 22(4), 480 - 487. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.1967717 picture_as_pdf
  • Falkner, Robert (2019). The unavoidability of justice – and order – in international climate politics: from Kyoto to Paris and beyond. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 21(2), 270-278. https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148118819069 picture_as_pdf
  • Falkner, Robert, Buzan, Barry (2018). The emergence of environmental stewardship as a primary institution of global international society. European Journal of International Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066117741948
  • Chan, Sander, Falkner, Robert, Goldberg, Matthew, van Asselt, Harro (2018). Effective and geographically balanced? An output-based assessment of non-state climate actions. Climate Policy, 18(1), 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2016.1248343
  • Falkner, Robert (2017). Rethinking Europe’s external relations in an age of global turmoil: an introduction. International Politics, 54(4), 389-404. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-017-0048-6
  • Anheier, Helmut K., Falkner, Robert (2017). Europe challenged: an introduction to the special issue. Global Policy, 8 (S4), 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12424
  • Falkner, Robert (2016). The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics. International Affairs, 92(5), 1107-1125. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12708
  • Falkner, Robert (2016). A minilateral solution for global climate change? On bargaining efficiency, club benefits, and international legitimacy. Perspectives on Politics, 14(1), 87-101. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592715003242
  • Falkner, Robert (2015). International negotiations: towards minilateralism. Nature Climate Change, 5(9), 805-806. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2767
  • Falkner, Robert (2015). Book review: Greening the globe: world society and environmental change. American Journal of Sociology, 121(3), 976-978. https://doi.org/10.1086/682887
  • Falkner, Robert (2014). Global environmental politics and energy: mapping the research agenda. Energy Research and Social Science, 1, 188-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2014.03.008
  • Falkner, Robert, Lee, Bernice (2012). International affairs: special issue: Rio+20 and the global environment: reflections on theory and practice. International Affairs, 88(3).
  • Falkner, Robert, Jaspers, Nico (2012). Regulating nanotechnologies: risk, uncertainty and the global governance gap. Global Environmental Politics, 12(1), 30-55. https://doi.org/10.1162/GLEP_a_00096
  • Falkner, Robert (2012). Global environmentalism and the greening of international society. International Affairs, 88(3), 503-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2012.01086.x
  • Falkner, Robert, Lee, Bernice (2012). Introduction. International Affairs, 88(3), 457-462. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2012.01083.x
  • Falkner, Robert, Stephan, Hannes, Vogler, John (2010). International climate policy after Copenhagen: towards a ‘building blocks’ approach. Global Policy, 1(3), 252-262. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2010.00045.x
  • Pendergrass, John, Breggin, Linda, Falkner, Robert, Jaspers, Nico, Porter, Read (2010). Consumer labeling of nanomaterials in the European Union and the United States. Environmental Law Reporter, 40, 10117-10118.
  • Falkner, Robert, Gupta, Aarti (2009). The limits of regulatory convergence: globalization and GMO politics in the south. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 9(2), 113-133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-009-9094-x
  • Falkner, Robert (2008). Le retour du geant vert. Alternatives Internationales, 39, 53-54.
  • Falkner, Robert (2008). Nanotechnology dangers: who's afraid of nanotech? World Today, 64(6), 15-17.
  • Falkner, Robert (2007). The political economy of 'normative power' Europe: EU environmental leadership in international biotechnology regulation. Journal of European Public Policy, 14(4), 507-526. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501760701314326
  • Falkner, Robert (2007). The global biotech food fight: why the United States got it so wrong. Brown Journal of World Affairs, 14(1), 99-110.
  • Falkner, Robert (2006). International sources of environmental policy change in China: the case of genetically modified food. Pacific Review, 19(4), 473-494. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512740600984861
  • Gupta, Aarti, Falkner, Robert (2006). The influence of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: comparing Mexico, China and South Africa. Global Environmental Politics, 6(4), 23-55.
  • Falkner, Robert (2005). American hegemony and the global environment. International Studies Review, 7(4), 585-599. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2005.00534.x
  • Falkner, Robert (2005). China: ecological collapse threatens. World Today, 61(August), 32-34.
  • Falkner, Robert (2004). The first meeting of the parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. Environmental Politics, 13(3), 635-641. https://doi.org/10.1080/0964401042000251930
  • Falkner, Robert (2003). Private environmental governance and international relations: exploring the links. Global Environmental Politics, 3(2), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638003322068227
  • Falkner, Robert (2003). Picking the wrong fight: genetically modified organisms and the World Trade Organization. World Today, 59(8/9), 33-34.
  • Falkner, Robert (2002). Gene wars go south. World Today, 58(8/9), 17-18.
  • Falkner, Robert (2000). Regulating biotech trade: the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. International Affairs, 76(2), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00135
    • Book
  • Buzan, Barry, Falkner, Robert (2025). The market in global international society: an English school approach to international political economy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198939634.001.0001
  • Falkner, Robert, Buzan, Barry (Eds.) (2022). Great powers, climate change, and global environmental responsibilities. Oxford University Press.
  • Falkner, Robert (2021). Environmentalism and global international society. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966696
  • Falkner, Robert (Ed.) (2013). The handbook of global climate and environment policy. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118326213
  • Falkner, Robert (2008). Business power and conflict in international environmental politics. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Falkner, Robert (Ed.) (2007). The international politics of genetically modified food: diplomacy, trade and law. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bail, Christoph, Falkner, Robert, Marquard, Helen (Eds.) (2002). The Cartagena protocol on biosafety: reconciling trade in biotechnology with environment and development? Earthscan Publications Ltd..
    • Chapter
  • Falkner, Robert (2025). From the margins to the center of global environmental governance: international business at the Stockholm (1972), Rio (1992), and Johannesburg (2002) conferences. In Bott, Sandr, Pitteloud, Sabine, Schaufelbuehl, Janick Marina (Eds.), Environmental Regulation and the History of Capitalism: The Role of Business from Stockholm 1972 to the Climate Crisis (pp. 27 - 45). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003515494-3 picture_as_pdf
  • Buzan, Barry, Falkner, Robert (2025). Introduction. In The Market in Global International Society: An English School Approach to International Political Economy (pp. 1 - 12). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198939634.003.0001 picture_as_pdf
  • Buzan, Barry, Falkner, Robert (2023). La responsabilidad ambiental de las grandes potencias internacionales. In Fàbregues, Francesc, Farrés, Oriol (Eds.), Anuario Internacional CIDOB 2023 (pp. 55 - 64). Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. picture_as_pdf
  • Buzan, Barry, Falkner, Robert (2022). The market in global international society: a dialectic of contestation and resilience. In Flockhart, Trine, Paikin, Zachary (Eds.), Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience (pp. 237 - 260). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11393-2_12 picture_as_pdf
  • Buzan, Barry, Falkner, Robert (2022). Great powers and environmental responsibilities: a conceptual framework. In Falkner, Robert, Buzan, Barry (Eds.), Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities (pp. 14 - 48). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866022.003.0002 picture_as_pdf
  • Falkner, Robert, Buzan, Barry (2022). Great powers, climate change and global responsibilities: a concluding assessment. In Falkner, Robert, Buzan, Barry (Eds.), Great powers, climate change, and global environmental responsibilities (pp. 279-289). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866022.003.0013
  • Falkner, Robert, Buzan, Barry (2022). Introduction. In Falkner, Robert, Buzan, Barry (Eds.), Great Powers, climate change, and global environmental responsibilities (pp. 3-13). Oxford University Press.
  • Falkner, Robert (2020). Global environmental responsibility in world politics. In Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes, Vetterlein, Antje (Eds.), The rise of responsibility in world politics (pp. 101-124). Cambridge University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Falkner, Robert (2017). International climate politics between pluralism and solidarism: An English School perspective. In Corry, Olaf, Stevenson, Hayley (Eds.), Traditions and Trends in Global Environmental Politics: International Relations and the Earth (pp. 26-44). Routledge.
  • Falkner, Robert (2017). The anarchical society and climate change. In Suganami, Hidemi, Carr, Madeline, Humphreys, Adam (Eds.), The Anarchical Society at 40: Contemporary Challenges and Prospects (pp. 198-2015). Oxford University Press.
  • Jaspers, Nico, Falkner, Robert (2013). International trade, the environment, and climate change. In Falkner, Robert (Ed.), The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (pp. 412-428). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118326213.ch24
  • Falkner, Robert (2013). The nation-state, international society, and the global environment. In Falkner, Robert (Ed.), The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (pp. 251-268). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118326213.ch15
  • Falkner, Robert (2013). The crisis of environmental multilateralism: a liberal response. In Brack, Duncan, Burall, Paul, Stockley, Neil, Tuffrey, Mike (Eds.), The Green Book New Directions for Liberals in Government . Biteback Publishing.
  • Falkner, Robert (2013). Preface. In Falkner, Robert (Ed.), The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (pp. i-xv). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118326213.fmatter
  • Tienhaara, Kyla, Orsini, Amandine, Falkner, Robert (2012). Global corporations. In Biermann, Frank, Pattberg, Philipp (Eds.), Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered (pp. 45-68). MIT Press.
  • Busch, Per-Olof, Gupta, Aarti, Falkner, Robert (2012). International-domestic linkages and policy convergence. In Biermann, Frank, Pattberg, Philipp (Eds.), Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered (pp. 199-218). MIT Press.
  • Falkner, Robert, Jaspers, Nico (2012). Environmental protection, international trade and the WTO. In Heydon, Kenneth, Woolcock, Stephen (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy (pp. 245-260). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Falkner, Robert (2012). Business power, business conflict: a neo-pluralist perspective on international environmental politics. In Dauvergne, Peter (Ed.), Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (pp. 319-329). Edward Elgar.
  • Porter, Read, Falkner, Robert, Pendergrass, John, Jaspers, Nico (2011). Regulatory responses to scientific uncertainty and nanotechnology. In Dana, David (Ed.), The Nanotechnology Challenge: Creating Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks (pp. 379-417). Cambridge University Press.
  • Breggin, Linda, Falkner, Robert, Pendergrass, John, Porter, Read, Jaspers, Nico (2011). Addressing the risks of nanomaterials under United States and European Union regulatory frameworks for chemicals. In Ramachandran, Gurumurthy (Ed.), Assessing Nanoparticle Risks to Human Health (pp. 195-272). William Andrew. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-4377-7863-2.00008-X
  • Falkner, Robert (2010). Business and global climate governance: a neo-pluralist perspective. In Ougaard, Morten, Leander, Anna (Eds.), Business and Global Governance . Routledge.
  • Falkner, Robert (2010). Getting a deal on climate change: Obama's flexible multilateralism. In Kitchen, Nicholas (Ed.), Obama Nation?: Us Foreign Policy One Year On (pp. 37-41). LSE Ideas.
  • Falkner, Robert, Breggin, Linda, Jaspers, Nico, Pendergrass, John, Porter, Read (2010). International coordination and cooperation: the next agenda in nanomaterials regulation. In Hodge, Graeme A., Bowman, Diana M., Maynard, Andrew D. (Eds.), International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies (pp. 508-524). Edward Elgar.
  • Falkner, Robert (2009). The troubled birth of the "biotech century": global corporate power and its limits. In Clapp, Jennifer, Fuchs, Doris (Eds.), Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (pp. 225-252). MIT Press.
  • Falkner, Robert (2009). The global politics of precaution: explaining international cooperation on biosafety. In Brem, Stefan, Stiles, Kendall (Eds.), Cooperating Without America: Theories and Case Studies of Non-Hegemonic Regimes . Routledge.
  • Falkner, Robert (2008). Oelmultis als transnationale akteure: grundlagen und grenzen globaler firmenmacht. In Braml, Josef (Ed.), Weltvertraegliche Energiesicherheitspolitik. Jahrbuch Internationale Politik 2005/2006 (pp. 345-349). De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Firm).
  • Falkner, Robert (2007). International cooperation against the hegemon: the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. In Falkner, Robert (Ed.), The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law (pp. 15-33). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Falkner, Robert (2007). Internationalising biotechnology policy in China. In Falkner, Robert (Ed.), The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law (pp. 174-191). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Falkner, Robert (2005). The business of ozone layer protection: corporate power in regime evolution. In Levy, David L, Newell, Peter J (Eds.), The Business of Global Environmental Governance (pp. 105-134). MIT Press.
  • Falkner, Robert (2004). Trading food: the international politics of genetically modified organisms. In Hocking, Brian, McGuire, Steven (Eds.), Trade Politics (pp. 249-260). Routledge.
  • Falkner, Robert (2003). Adam Smith's political liberalism. In Opitz, P.-J., Ferdowsi, M. A., Herz, D., Schattenmann, M. (Eds.), Von Himmlischer Ordnung und Weltlichen Problemen: Festschrift Zum 65. Geburtstag Von Peter J. Opitz (pp. 133-158). Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
  • Falkner, Robert (2002). Negotiating the Biosafety Protocol: the international process. In Bail, Christoph, Falkner, Robert, Marquard, Helen (Eds.), The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology With Environment and Development (pp. 3-22). Earthscan from Routledge.
  • Falkner, Robert (2002). Umwelt. In Herz, Dietmar, Jetzlsperger, Christian, Schattenmann, Marc (Eds.), Die Vereinten Nationen: Entwicklung, Aktivitaeten, Perspektiven (pp. 163-186). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag.
  • Falkner, Robert (2001). Genetic seeds of discord: the transatlantic GMO trade conflict after the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. In Phillips, Peter, Wolfe, Robert (Eds.), Governing Food: Science, Safety and Trade (pp. 149-161). McGill-Queen's University Press.
  • Falkner, Robert (2001). Business conflict and US international environmental policy: ozone, climate, and biodiversity. In Harris, Paul G (Ed.), The Environment, International Relations, and Us Foreign Policy (pp. 157-177). Georgetown University Press.
  • Falkner, Robert (2000). International trade conflicts over agricultural biotechnology. In Russell, Alan, Vogler, John (Eds.), The International Politics of Biotechnology: Investigating Global Futures (pp. 142-156). Manchester University Press.
    • Special issue
  • Falker, Robert, Anheier, Helmut K. (Eds.) (2017). Europe and the world: rethinking Europe’s external relations in an age of global turmoil [Special issue]. International Politics, 54(4).
  • Anheier, Helmut K., Falkner, Robert (Eds.) (2017). Special issue: Europe and the world: global insecurity and power shifts [Special issue]. Global Policy, 8 (S4).
    • Report
  • Brown, Scott A.W, Cooper, Robert, Falkner, Robert, Gaspers, Jan, Gippner, Olivia, Henökl, Thomas, Lang, Bertram, Mohan, Garima, Murray, Philomena & Reiterer, Michael et al (2016). Changing waters: towards a new EU Asia strategy. (IDEAS reports - special reports SR021). LSE IDEAS, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Falkner, Robert (2011). Global governance: the rise of non-state actors: a background report for the SOER 2010 assessment of global megatrends. (EAA technical report 4/2011). European Environment Agency.
  • Kitchen, Nicholas, Buzan, Barry, Guelke, Adrian, Bettiza, Gregorio, Phillips, Christopher, Dodge, Toby, Williams, Michael J., Kalinovsky, Artemy, Haacke, Jürgen & Budd, Colin et al (2010). Obama nation?: US foreign policy one year on. (IDEAS reports - special reports SR0003). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Falkner, Robert (2010). Obama nation?: US foreign policy one year on: getting a deal on climate change: Obama’s flexible multilateralism. (IDEAS reports - special reports SR003). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Breggin, Linda, Falkner, Robert, Jaspers, Nico, Pendergrass, John, Porter, Read (2009). Securing the promise of nanotechnologies: towards transatlantic regulatory cooperation. Report. Chatham House.
  • Gupta, Aarti, Falkner, Robert (2006). The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and domestic implementation: comparing Mexico, China and South Africa. (Energy, environment and development programme briefing paper 06/01). Royal Institute of International Affairs.
  • Falkner, Robert, Gupta, Aarti (2004). Implementing the Biosafety Protocol: key challenges. (Chatham House briefing paper SDP BP 04/04). Chatham House.
  • Brack, Duncan, Falkner, Robert, Goll, Judith (2003). The next trade war? GM products, the Cartegena Protocol and the WTO. (Briefing paper 8). Chatham House.
    • Online resource
  • Falkner, Robert (2017). Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: what next for international climate policy?
  • Falkner, Robert (2017). Book review: fact and fiction in global energy policy: 15 contentious questions by Benjamin J. Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown and Scott V. Valentine.
  • Falkner, Robert (2015). Business involvement in climate negotiations has come a long way.
  • Falkner, Robert (2014). Tough trade-offs on the road to Paris: What hopes for a 2015 climate agreement?
  • Falkner, Robert (2013). The burning hole at the heart of the G8 agenda. Why was climate change marginalised at the 2013 G8 summit?
    • Working paper
  • Chan, Sander, Falkner, Robert, van Asselt, Harro, Goldberg, Matthew (2015). Strengthening non-state climate action: a progress assessment of commitments launched at the 2014 UN Climate Summit. (Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment working papers 242, 216). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Falkner, Robert (2015). A minilateral solution for global climate change? On bargaining efficiency, club benefits and international legitimacy. (Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment working papers 222, 197). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Falkner, Robert, Hannes, Stephen, Vogler, John (2010). International climate policy after Copenhagen: towards a ‘building blocks’ approach. (Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment 21). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Falkner, Robert, Breggin, Linda, Jaspers, Nico, Pendergrass, John, Porter, Read (2009). Consumer labelling of nanomaterials in the EU and US: convergence or divergence? (EERG BP 2009/03). Chatham House.
  • Falkner, Robert, Breggin, Linda, Jaspers, Nico, Pendergrass, John, Porter, Read (2009). Regulating nanomaterials: a transatlantic agenda. (EERG BP 2009/02). Chatham House.
  • 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). Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
    • Blog post
  • Buzan, Barry, Falkner, Robert (3 March 2025) How the rise of the market economy transformed the world. LSE Review of Books. picture_as_pdf
  • Falkner, Robert (6 November 2023) How the EU navigated the energy crisis and renewed its commitment to net zero. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Falkner, Robert, Fasolo, Barbara, Taj, Umar, Cnop-Nielson, Aurelie, Soane, Emma, Chambers, Stephan (31 January 2022) How to upskill for 2022. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf