Negotiating the End of the World

Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra.

• 1. Defunct philosophers?2. Kant's beautiful visionCosmopolitanismA league of nationsA digressionSovereignty and the climateAtmospheric ethicsInterventions3. Schmitt and the great powersSchmitt the NaziVolk versus 'humanity'Against liberalismGroßraum and globalismNomos of the earthSchmitt and the climateConspiratorial thinking4. Europe, land of KantThe Kantian modelThe global climate leaderNeutralization in the EUThe ghost who walksVisigrád: Schmitt central?5. United States, in two mindsContending worldviewsThe culture of denialThe global of global warmingExempting the USAAn American Großraum?The charismatic leaderTrump's SchmittsSex, gender and climate change6. Schmitt fever in ChinaKant outSchmitt inCivil society and NGOsFrom Großraum to tianxiaEcological civilization7. The negotiations from Rio to CopenhagenFrom Rio to KyotoThe Byrd-Hagel resolutionThe Kyoto breakthroughAfter KyotoThe Copenhagen debacleCopenhagen fall-out8. Trends and influencesChina: from defence to offenceClimate colonialism and climate justiceThe Russian enigmaThe Greta effect9. From Copenhagen to Paris and afterRealignmentsThe 2014 US-China agreementAt Le BourgetTop-down versus bottom upLegally binding versus sovereignAfter ParisDubai and the carbon club10. When Schmitt prevailsA hot worldAdaptingTechnofixCollapse

"The global backlash against climate policy is fuelled by rising geopolitical discord, illiberalism, and economic nationalism. Hamilton's powerful book provides an unflinching account of the darker intellectual forces that are undermining the liberal international order and threatening the collective fight against global warming."Robert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political Science"Not only does Hamilton compellingly cast international climate politics as mired in a clash of worldviews represented by Kant and Schmitt, he captures the wider rupture between incumbent liberal cosmopolitanism and the insurgent authoritarianism that has arisen to oppose it."Steve Vanderheiden, University of Colorado"Original, ambitious and equally impassioned"The Ecologist"A provocative analysis of the struggling international climate negotiations."Financial Times