2026
Environmental Norms and Practices
Steven Bernstein, Aarie Glas and Marion Laurence
The Meaning, Evolution, and Limits of the SDGs’ Coherence Agenda
Steven Bernstein and Chen Zhong
Christopher J. Lemieux, Tatyana Feiner, Justine Townsend, Kirsten Scott, and Andrea Olive
Lithium for the Global Energy Transition: How Global Forces and National Legacies are Driving Resource-Based Development in South America
Martin Obaya and Teresa Kramarz
Reimagining Urban Air-Quality Governance: A Systems-Thinking Framework
Harshit Gujral, Om Damani, Anshul Agarwal, Christoph Becker, Meredith Franklin, Teresa Kramarz, Ronak Sutaria, Sagnik Dey, and Steve Easterbrook
Audits as Assurance in Contemporary Regulatory Governance
Stefan Renckens and Graeme Auld
A Norm in the Making? The Privatization of Regulatory Compliance Assurance through Third-Party Auditing
Stefan Renckens and Graeme Auld
2025
Andrea Olive and Heather Millar
Steven Bernstein
Lisa Nicole Mills, Jennifer M. Stewart, and Graeme Auld
The Politics of Stability and Politicization of Change: The Carbon Trap and Just Transition
Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann
Assurance Actors as Intermediaries in AI Risk Governance
Benjamin Faveri and Graeme Auld
Graeme Auld and Stefan Renckens
Overlap and Fragmentation in the Global Governance Complex of Sustainable Finance
Stefan Renckens and Christian Elliott
Reassessing World Bank Conditionality: Beyond Count Measures
Jacob Winter, Ben Cormier, Teresa Kramarz, and Mark Manger
Norms, Practices, and Social Change in Global Politics
Steven Bernstein, Aarie Glas, and Marion Laurence
Graeme Auld and Stefan Renckens
Craig A. Johnson, Susan Park, and Teresa Kramarz
2024
The Climate Challenge for International Studies
Matthew Hoffmann
IR, climate politics, and change: opportunities for productive engagement?
Steven Bernstein
Governance Gaps and Accountability Traps in Renewables Extractivism
Susan Park, Teresa Kramarz, and Craig Johnson
Victoria Arias Mahiques, Tomás Allan, Melisa Escosteguy, Teresa Kramarz, and Donald Kingsbury
Teresa Kramarz, Maria Victoria Arias Mahiques, Tomas Allan, Melisa Escosteguy, Donald Kingsbury, and Lucas Seghezzo
2023
Michael Mason, Lena Partzsch, and Teresa Kramarz
Existential security and the governance challenge: Confronting the antinomies of securitisation
Steven Bernstein
Christian Elliott, Amy Janzwood, Steven Bernstein, and Matthew Hoffmann
2022
Bringing the Environment Back In: Overcoming the Tragedy of the Diffusion of the Commons Metaphor
Benjamin Cashore and Steven Bernstein
The Green Energy Transition Has an Extractivism Problem
Teresa Kramarz
Time to Break the ‘Lock-In’ Impediments to Chemicals Management
Jonathan Blumenthal, Miriam L. Diamond, Matthew Hoffmann, and Zhanyun Wang
Building Durable Climate Clubs: Lessons from a Comparative Study of the APP and CEM
Yu Bowen, Steven Bernstein, and Matthew Hoffmann
Insights from the Field: Unlocking SME Emissions Reductions in the Green Recovery
Michaela Pedersen-Macnab
Negative policy feedbacks may hold New Brunswick back from decarbonizing its electricity sector
Heather Millar
Credibility dilemmas under the Paris agreement: explaining fossil fuel subsidy reform references in INDCs
Christian Elliott, Steven Bernstein, and Matthew Hoffmann
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals
Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit, Marianne Beisheim, Steven Bernstein, Pamela Chasek, Leonie Grob, Rakhyun E. Kim, Louis J. Kotzé, Måns Nilsson, Andrea Ordóñez Llanos, Chukwumerije Okereke, Prajal Pradhan, Rob Raven, Yixian Sun, Marjanneke J. Vijge, Detlef van Vuuren, and Birka Wicke
Proxy-led accountability for natural resource extraction in rentier states
Teresa Kramarz, Michael Mason, and Lena Partzsch
Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects
Teresa Kramarz
2021
Rooted in Place: Regional Innovation, Assets, and the Politics of Electric Vehicle Leadership in California, Norway, and Québec
Nathan Lemphers, Steven Bernstein, Matthew Hoffmann, and David A. Wolfe
Managing Pandemics as Super Wicked Problems: Lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis
Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein, Ben Cashore, and Kelly Levin
The Assigning and Erosion of Responsibility for the Global Environment
Steven Bernstein
The Paris Agreement: How the Global Deal Was Done
Jen Iris Allan, Charles Roger, Thomas Hale, Steven Bernstein, Richard Balme, and Yves Tiberghien
Continuity and change in carbon market politics
Carley Chavara, Christian Elliott, Matthew Hoffmann, and Matthew Paterson
Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements
Teresa Kramarz, Susan Park, and Craig Johnson
2020
Self-reinforcing and self-undermining feedbacks in subnational climate policy implementation
Heather Millar, Eve Bourgeois, Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann, Environmental Politics
Forgotten Values: The World Bank and Environmental Partnerships
Teresa Kramarz, The MIT Press
Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation
Heather Millar, Review of Policy Research
Orchestration in Architectures of Earth System Governance: Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation
Kenneth W. Abbott, Steven Bernstein and Amy Janzwood, Cambridge University Press
Global Business Leadership in Carbon Pricing: The Case of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC)
Amy Janzwood, Working Paper, Environmental Governance Lab
Why Experts Disagree on How to Manage COVID-19: Four Problem Conceptions, Not One
Steven Bernstein and Ben Cashore, Global Policy
Just urban transitions: Toward a research agenda
Sara Hughes and Matthew Hoffmann, WIREs Climate Change
Matching the HLPF’s Ambition to Performance: Prospects for the Review
Steven Bernstein and Marianne Beisheim, IISD
2019
Climate politics, metaphors and the fractal carbon trap
Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann, Nature Climate Change
Reflections on the Utrecht Winter School on Earth System Governance
Amy Janzwood, Workshop Report
Carbon Disclosure and Decarbonization: The Case of CDP
Amy Janzwood, Working Paper, Environmental Governance Lab
Rolling the snowball: Norway’s efforts to electrify transportation
Nathan Lemphers
Working Paper, Environmental Governance Lab
Globalizing the Global Green New Deal: Harmful Extractives in the Clean Energy Shift
Susan Park, Teresa Kramarz, Craig Johnson and Stacy D. VanDeveer, Public Administration Review Bully Pulpit Symposium.
Workshop Report: Governing Minerals for Renewable Energy
Teresa Kramarz, Workshop Report
The absence of great power responsibility in global environmental politics
Steven Bernstein, European Journal of International Relations
Designing stakeholder learning dialogues for effective global governance
Ben Cashore, Steven Bernstein, David Humphreys, Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers and Katherine Rietig, Policy and Society
Redrawing the Battle Lines in the Fight Over Canada’s Price on Carbon Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap
Susan Park and Teresa Kramarz, The MIT Press
Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap
Susan Park and Teresa Kramarz, The MIT Press
Climate Clubs and Global Decarbonization: A Comparison of the APP and the CEM
Bowen Yu, Working Paper, Environmental Governance Lab
2017
Carbon Disclosure and Global Decarbonization: The Case of CDP
Amy Janzwood, Working Paper, Environmental Governance Lab
Non-Demarcated Spaces of Knowledge-Informed Policy Making: How Useful is the Concept of Boundary Organization in IR?
Daniel Compagnon and Steven Bernstein, Review of Policy Research
Professions and Policy Dynamics in the Transnational Carbon Emissions Trading Network
Matthew Paterson, Steven Bernstein, Matthew Hoffmann and Michele Betsill, Cambridge University Press
Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics
Steven Bernstein and Hamish van der Ven, International Politics and Institutions in Time, Oxford University Press.
Valuing Contributions of Nonstate and Subnational Actors to Climate Governance
Hamish van der Ven, Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann, Global Environmental Politics
Introduction: Global governance through goal setting
Norichika Kanie, Steven Bernstein, Frank Biermann and Peter Haas, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Accountability and Environmental Politics: an Introduction
Susan Park and Teresa Kramarz, Review of Policy Research
The Politics of Environmental Accountability
Teresa Kramarz and Susan Park, Review of Policy Research
Stimulating a Canadian narrative for climate
Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann, FACETS
Best Practices in Global Governance
Steven Bernstein and Hamish van der Ven, Review of International Studies
Pipelines, Paris, and Decarbonization: The Future of Canadian Energy and Climate Policy
Steven Bernstein, Matthew Hoffmann and Amy Janzwood, Workshop Report
2016
Power and Politics in Decarbonization Pathway: The Case of the Climate Group’s Smart 2020 Initiative
Laura Tozer, Working Paper, Environmental Governance Lab
The Analytic Utility (and Practical Pitfalls) of Accountability
Matthew Hoffmann, Global Environmental PoliticsThe Politics of Decarbonization: A Framework and Method
Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann, Working Paper, Environmental Governance Lab
The Judicialization of Environmental Policy and the Decline of Democratic Accountability
Teresa Kramarz, David Cosolo and Alejandro Rossi, Review of Policy Research
Accountability in Global Environmental Governance: A Meaningful Tool for Action?
Teresa Kramarz and Susan Park, Global Environmental Politics
World Bank Partnerships and the Promise of Democratic Governance
Teresa Kramarz, Environmental Policy and Governance
2015
Reinvigorating International Climate Policy:
A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Nonstate Action
Sander Chan, Harro van Asselt, Thomas Hale, Ken Abbot, Marianne Beisheim, Matthew Hoffmann, Brendan Guy, Niklas Hohne, Angel Hsu, Philip Pattberg, Pieter Pauw, Celine Ramstein and Oscar Widerberg, Global Policy
Accountability in Global Environmental Governance – Workshop Report, University of Sydney
Aarti Gupta, Bunlong Leng, David Schlosberg, Jessie Connell, John Dryzek, Jonathan Kuyper, Judith van Leeuwen, Karin Bäckstrand, Michelle Scobie, Nick Enfield, Oscar Widerberg, Pichamon (May) Yeophantong, Robert MacNeil, Ruben Zondervan, Sokphea Young, Susan Park and Teresa Kramarz, Workshop Reports
The Challenge of Climate Change
Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein, Matthew Hoffmann and Matthew Paterson, Policy Options
Correlates of Rigorous and Credible Transnational Governance: A Cross-Sectoral Analysis of Best Practice Compliance in Eco-Labeling
Hamish van der Ven, Regulation and Governance
The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: Orchestration by Default and Design
Kenneth W. Abbott and Steven Bernstein, Global Policy
Accountability in Global Environmental Governance – Workshop Report, New Orleans
Pichamon Yeophantong, New Orleans
2014
The Publicness of Private Global Environmental and Social Governance
Steven Bernstein, The Return of the Public in Global Governance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Transnational Climate Change Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Harriet Bulkeley, Liliana Andonova, Michele Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew Hoffmann, Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson, Charlie Roger and Stacy VanDeveer
Liberal Environmentalism
Steven Bernstein, Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance. London, UK: Routledge.
Climate Policy and Governance
Matthew Hoffmann, Handbook of IPE and Governance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Accountability in Global Environmental Governance – Workshop Report, University of Toronto
Teresa Kramarz, Ben Donato-Woodger and Kristen Pue, University of Toronto
The Micro Foundations of Policy Diffusion towards Complex Global Governance: An Analysis of the Transnational Carbon Emission Trading Network
Matthew Paterson, Matthew Hoffmann, Michele Betsill and Steven Bernstein, Comparative Political Studies
2013
The Role and Place of a High-Level Political Forum in Strengthening the Global Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development
Steven Bernstein, Commissioned by UN-DESA
Global Climate Change
Matthew Hoffmann, Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
Climate Change
Matthew Hoffmann, International Organization and Global Governance. London, UK: Routledge
Norm Constructivism: Contesting International Legal Norms
Matthew Hoffmann, Making Sense of IR Theory 2nd Edition. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Press
Global Environmental Norms
Steven Bernstein, Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy. London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
Methods and Global Environmental Governance: Reflection, Relevance and Rigor
Kate O’Neill, Erika Weinthal, Kimberly Marion Suiseeya, Steven Bernstein, Avery Cohn, Michael Stone and Ben Cashore, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Rio + 20: Sustainable Development in a Time of Multilateral Decline
Steven Bernstein, Global Environmental Politics
The World Bank as Knowledge Bank: Analyzing the Limits of a Legitimate Global Knowledge Actor
Teresa Kramarz and Bessma Momani, Review of Policy Research
2012
Governing Climate Change Transnationally: Assessing the Evidence from a Database of Sixty Initiatives
Harriet Bulkeley, Liliana Andonova, Karin Backstrand, Michele Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Rosaleen Duffy, Matthew Hoffmann, Ans Kolk, David Levy, Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson, Phillip Pattberg and Stacy VanDeveer, Environment and Planning C
The WTO and Institutional (In)Coherence in Global Economic Governance
Steven Bernstein and Erin Hannah, The Oxford Handbook on the WTO. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Transnational Climate Governance Experiments
Harriet Bulkeley, Matthew Hoffmann, Stacy VanDeveer and Victoria Milledge, Global Environmental Governance Reconsidered
Complex Global Governance and Domestic Policies: Four Pathways of Influence
Steven Bernstein and Ben Cashore, International Affairs
Grand Compromises in Global Governance
Steven Bernstein, Government and Opposition
Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance
Frank Biermann, Kenneth Abbott, Sabine Andresen, Karin Backstrand, Steven Bernstein, Michele Betsill and Harriet Bulkeley, Science
From Rio to Rio and Beyond: Innovation in Global Environmental Governance
Liliana Andonova and Matthew Hoffmann, Journal of Environment and Development
Legitimacy Problems and Responses in Global Environmental Governance
Steven Bernstein, The Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Climate Governance Experiments
Matthew Hoffmann, The Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Overcoming the Tragedy of Super Wicked Problems: Constraining our Future Selves to Ameliorate Global Climate Change
Kelly Levin, Ben Cashore, Steven Bernstein and Graeme Auld, Policy Sciences
Partnerships in Global Environmental Governance: The Growth of a Procedural Norm without Substance
Teresa Kramarz, New York, NY: Springer
2011
Climate Governance at the Crossroads: Experimenting with a Global Response After Kyoto
Matthew Hoffmann, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Legitimacy in Intergovernmental and Non-state Global Governance.
Steven Bernstein, Review of International Political Economy
The Contours of “Cap and Trade”: The Evolution of Emissions Trading Systems for Greenhouse Gases
Michele Betsill and Matthew Hoffmann, Review of Policy Research
2010
Examination of the Influences of Global Forest Governance Arrangements at the Domestic Level
Steven Bernstein and Ben Cashore, in Embracing Complexity: Meeting the Challenges of International Forest Governance, International Union of Forest Research Organizations
A Tale of Two Copenhagens: Carbon Markets and Climate Governance
Steven Bernstein, Michele Betsill, Matthew Hoffmann and Matthew Paterson, Millenium: Journal of International Studies
2008
Non-State Global Standard Setting and the WTO: Legitimacy and the Need for Regulatory Space
Steven Bernstein and Erin Hannah, Journal of International Economic Law
International Organizations and Public-Private Partnerships for Biodiversity Conservation: From Policy Entrepreneurs to Norm Entrepreneurs?
Teresa Kramarz, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, Globalization Working Paper Series
2007
Can Non-State Global Governance Be Legitimate? An Analytical Framework
Steven Bernstein, Regulation and Governance