Transboundary Environmental Problems and Cultural Theory: The Protection of the Rhine and the Great Lakes

In this book, Marco Verweij presents a new and challenging theoretical framework with which to understand international relations, based on the cultural theory developed by Mary Douglas, Michael Thompson, Aaron Wildavsky and others. By applying this framework in a detailed study of the environmental protection of the River Rhine in Western Europe and the Great Lakes of North America, he also contributes to a better understanding of how transboundary environmental problems have been, and can be, solved.

MARCO VERWEIJ is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Group on the Law of Common Goods in Bonn, Germany. He is a former editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies and co-editor (with D. Jacquin-Berdal and Andrew Oros) of Culture in World Politics.