Robert Falkner is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Research Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has published widely on global environmental politics and international political economy, including The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (2016) and Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (2008).

• 1. Introduction: The Greening of Global International Society; Part I. Theory: 2. English School Theory and Global Environmental Politics; 3. The Idea of Environmentalism; Part II. History: 4. The Origins of Global Environmentalism; 5. The Emergence of Environmental Stewardship as a Primary Institution; 6. The Globalisation of Environmental Stewardship; 7. Environmental Stewardship between Consolidation and Contestation; Part III. Analytical Perspectives: 8. Solidarist Ambition; 9. Pluralist Constraints; 10. World Society to the Rescue?; Part IV. Conclusions: 11. Conclusions: International Relations in the Anthropocene.

'This book provides a masterful account of the distinctive vantage point of English School Theory in illuminating the long history of the norm of environmental stewardship and how it worked its way into the fundamental structure of international society. Falkner's long view of institutional change helps us to see how far international society has travelled.' Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne