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Lada V. Kochtcheeva

Bio: Lada V. Kochtcheeva is an academic researcher from North Carolina State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Globalization & Geopolitics. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 15 publications receiving 42 citations.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on how regulators and courts interact in influencing the potential for administrative discretion in U.S. environmental policy, highlighting the construction of substantive rules by an agency, the interpretation of agency rulings by courts, capacity of an agency for implementation, and legislative responsiveness to agency rulings.
Abstract: The main challenge of the scholarship with administrative discretion is how to reach the appropriate balance between a commitment to legislative preferences and flexibility in regulating diverse targets in constantly changing environments. This article focuses on how regulators and courts interact in influencing the potential for administrative discretion in U.S. environmental policy. It creates an analytical framework highlighting the construction of substantive rules by an agency, the interpretation of agency rulings by courts, capacity of an agency for implementation, and legislative responsiveness to agency rulings. It also analyzes several cases of the introduction of incentive-based economic instruments administered by the Environmental Protection Agency in air and water policies. The cases reveal the intensified and expanded production of substantive regulations by the agency and the trajectory of a struggle in the judiciary to advance both the legislative intent and the substantive goal of protecting the environment in a more cost-effective and less burdensome way.

9 citations

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29 Oct 2002

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that Russia's climate positioning has been based on nuanced and powerful conceptions of national interests, international engagement, and Russia's role in the world, and that these conceptions have been used to justify the country's climate stance.
Abstract: This article demonstrates that Russia’s climate positioning has been based on nuanced and powerful conceptions of national interests, international engagement, and Russia’s role in the world. Domes...

7 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the main linkages between globalization and the environment and focus on five effects of globalization in China, India and Brazil: scale effects, institutional effects, technology/product effects, policy effects, and societal effects.
Abstract: Globalization, as a process of intensified interaction and integration between different economies, polities and societies, has sharpened many conflicting arguments that arise regarding the balance between economic development and environmental quality, the character of environmental transformation and policy responses, and the linkages between global processes and domestic environmental rights, opinions, and beliefs. Does globalization contribute to increased economic opportunities and policy innovation, or does it drive environmental degradation and instability? Why do some emerging economies amplify the imbalance between economic growth and environmental protection while others produce a turning point toward environmental responsibility? Building on the framework of Theodore Panayotou, this article traces the main linkages between globalization and the environment and focuses on five effects of globalization in China, India and Brazil: scale effects, institutional effects, technology/product effects, policy effects, and societal effects. It argues that globalization accelerates structural, institutional and societal change in these emerging powers thus altering their industrial and policy structure, resource use patterns, and most importantly the awareness and responses to environmental degradation. The article also finds that globalization conducts and amplifies market and policy imperfections that may spread and exacerbate environmental damage, yet it also generates pressures for reform from environmental movements generating opportunities and attracting international interest.

5 citations

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15 Dec 2020
TL;DR: In the context of profound global transformations, what explains Russia's status and positioning in the world? as mentioned in this paper argues that as states are struggling to adapt to new realities and acquire capabilities in an effort to survive or gain more influence, Russia's standing will depend on how adequately it can respond to the challenges and how effectively it will be able to use its advantages.
Abstract: The world faces a strategic challenge of reforming the governance basis of international politics, which is displaying the symptoms of significant destabilization, searching for new ways of crafting nuanced equilibria of interests and capacity at the global, regional, and domestic levels. Developing intricate and adaptable formulas to manage individual facets of international engagement is becoming increasingly complex and volatile. The effects of instability vary in different countries, but the global operational and political space is increasingly determined by problems within countries, where external stress becomes a result of domestic discrepancies, aggravating them and producing a set of contradictions. In the context of profound global transformations, what explains Russia’s status and positioning in the world? This article argues that as states are struggling to adapt to new realities and acquire capabilities in an effort to survive or gain more influence, Russia’s standing will depend on how adequately it can respond to the challenges and how effectively it will be able to use its advantages. Russia should not simply take in the results of global turbulence, but rather employ and actively develop areas of leadership and collaboration, by tying foreign policy firmly to the priorities of domestic development. While Russia conducts an active foreign policy consistently defending its interests and combining efforts to find optimal solutions to many contemporary problems, it has not yet arrived at a coherent security strategy or produced a vision of a future world order. The success may depend on understanding of the current trends, recognizing opportunities and demonstrating leadership, willingness to share in responsibility for results, as well as conducting essential domestic reforms.

5 citations


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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Fukuyama's seminal work "The End of History and the Last Man" as discussed by the authors was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like, outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, and speculated what was going to come next.
Abstract: 20th anniversary edition of "The End of History and the Last Man", a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of "The Origins of Political Order". With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. "The End of History and the Last Man" was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like. Boldly outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened and then speculated what was going to come next. Tackling religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes and war, "The End of History and the Last Man" remains a compelling work to this day, provoking argument and debate among its readers. "Awesome ...a landmark ...profoundly realistic and important ...supremely timely and cogent ...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." (George Gilder, "The Washington"). Post Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952. His work includes "America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy" and "After the Neo Cons: Where the Right went Wrong". He now lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and children, where he also works as a part time photographer.

235 citations

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TL;DR: Tsygankov et al. as mentioned in this paper described change and continuity in national identity in Russia's foreign policy, focusing on the role of ethnicity and ethnicity in the change of national identity.
Abstract: Russia's foreign policy: change and continuity in national identity (2nd ed.), by Andrei Tsygankov, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2012, 292 pp., $32.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-742-56753-5

183 citations

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TL;DR: Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment by Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne as mentioned in this paper provides a summary of the issues surrounding the global economy and its relationship to environmental issues.
Abstract: Review: Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment By Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne Reviewed by Susan Maret University of Denver, USA Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne. Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. ISBN 0262532719 $25.00 Paper $62.00 Cloth. (327p.) A contribution to the undergraduate environmental studies literature, Paths to a Green World: the Political Economy of the Global Environment, provides a summation of the issues surrounding the global economy and its relationship to environmental issues. The authors, Jennifer Clapp, also the author of Toxic Exports: the Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries (Cornell University Press, 2001), and Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State, and the World Bank in Guinea (St. Martin's Press, 1997), and Peter Dauvergne , the author of Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (E. Elgar, 2005), use four sometimes-competing worldviews to inform Paths. Using these four worldviews serves to structure policies and debates that surround globalization, global institutional analysis, transboundary pollution, (free) trade, development, labor, gender equity, investment, debt relief, sustainability, and poverty. The four general worldviews, which are explained by the authors as “ ‘ideal’ categories exaggerated to help differentiate” are classified as market liberals (“benefits and dynamics of free markets and technology”), institutionalists (“emphasize the need for stronger global institutions and norms”), bioenvironmentalists (“stress the limits of earth to support life”), and social greens (“see social and political problems as inseparable”). In creating these “ideal” categories, the authors state they are simplifying “a seemingly unmanageable avalanche of conflicting information and analysis.” (p. 3). However, in describing the “ideal” categories, it would be useful for undergraduate readers, and readers generally, to be offered a brief theoretical discussion of what constitutes an “ideal,” by which I assume the authors are referring to Max Weber’s concept of ideal type. 1 This, and concepts such as environmental discourse 2 , are simply not defined by the authors. In the case of environmental discourse, a mere footnote to John S. Dryzek’s The Politics of the Earth : Environmental Discourses (New York : Oxford University Press, 2005) is provided, which hardly contributes to an understanding of the theoretical underpinning and methodological application of discourse, or its relevance to the language, politics, policies, and practices of economic players such as the World Bank, International

77 citations