Sikina Jinnah
Dr. Sikina Jinnah is an Associate Professor of International Relations at American University's School of International Service, where she teaches within the Global Environmental Politics Program. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, and the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations.
Her first book ("Post-treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance," MIT Press 2014) received the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book in international environmental affairs from the International Studies Association. The book examines the role of international bureaucracies in managing the politics of overlapping international regimes in the areas of biodiversity, climate change and international trade. Her second book (with Simon Nicholson), "New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene" (MIT Press 2016) engages leading scholars in a discussion over the role of global environmental politics in the age of the Anthropocene. She is currently working on a third book, "Trading the Environment," which examines the role of preferential trade agreements in securing environmental objectives.
Dr. Jinnah's research has also been published in several scholarly journals, including: Global Environmental Politics, the Journal of Environment and Development, Environmental Research Letters, Berkeley Journal of International Law Publicist, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, and Science.
Prior to coming to SIS she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. Dr. Jinnah was also formerly a consultant for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), where she reported on CITES and UNFCCC processes for IISD's Earth Negotiations Bulletin. She also serves on the editorial board for the journal Global Environmental Politics and is a Senior Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance project.
Degrees:
PhD, Environmental Science, Policy and Management U.C. Berkeley
MS, Environmental Studies
University of Montana, Missoula
BA (honors), Environmental Science
U.C. Berkeley
You can learn more about my work at my professional website: www.sikinajinnah.com
Address: Takoma Park, Maryland, United States
Her first book ("Post-treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance," MIT Press 2014) received the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book in international environmental affairs from the International Studies Association. The book examines the role of international bureaucracies in managing the politics of overlapping international regimes in the areas of biodiversity, climate change and international trade. Her second book (with Simon Nicholson), "New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene" (MIT Press 2016) engages leading scholars in a discussion over the role of global environmental politics in the age of the Anthropocene. She is currently working on a third book, "Trading the Environment," which examines the role of preferential trade agreements in securing environmental objectives.
Dr. Jinnah's research has also been published in several scholarly journals, including: Global Environmental Politics, the Journal of Environment and Development, Environmental Research Letters, Berkeley Journal of International Law Publicist, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, and Science.
Prior to coming to SIS she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. Dr. Jinnah was also formerly a consultant for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), where she reported on CITES and UNFCCC processes for IISD's Earth Negotiations Bulletin. She also serves on the editorial board for the journal Global Environmental Politics and is a Senior Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance project.
Degrees:
PhD, Environmental Science, Policy and Management U.C. Berkeley
MS, Environmental Studies
University of Montana, Missoula
BA (honors), Environmental Science
U.C. Berkeley
You can learn more about my work at my professional website: www.sikinajinnah.com
Address: Takoma Park, Maryland, United States
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This paper builds on recent literature to argue that emerging economies are simultaneously norm-takers and norm-makers, involved in a “two-way socialization” process with developed countries. It does this by tracing China’s engagement in negotiations surrounding the norm of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) between the 2007 Bali conference that set out to negotiate a post-Kyoto Protocol climate agreement, and the 2015 Paris conference that actually did so. In doing so, complicates the predominant unidirectional and dyadic models of normative change by illuminating the more complicated role emerging economies are playing in this process. The paper further distills a typology of normative change from the literature to help us understand how and why emerging economies engage in this process.
This paper builds on recent literature to argue that emerging economies are simultaneously norm-takers and norm-makers, involved in a “two-way socialization” process with developed countries. It does this by tracing China’s engagement in negotiations surrounding the norm of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) between the 2007 Bali conference that set out to negotiate a post-Kyoto Protocol climate agreement, and the 2015 Paris conference that actually did so. In doing so, complicates the predominant unidirectional and dyadic models of normative change by illuminating the more complicated role emerging economies are playing in this process. The paper further distills a typology of normative change from the literature to help us understand how and why emerging economies engage in this process.
At the heart of the volume is sustained attention to the role of traditional scholarly activities in a world confronting environmental disaster. Some contributors make the case that it is the scholar’s role to provide activists with the necessary knowledge and tools; others argue for more direct engagement and political action. All the contributors confront the overriding question: What is the best use of their individual and combined energies, given the dire environmental reality?