Who Saved Antarctica?: The Heroic Era of Antarctic Diplomacy

by Andrew Jackson

Book Overview

This book provides a diplomatic history of a turning point in Antarctic governance: the 1991 adoption of comprehensive environmental protection obligations for an entire continent, which prohibited mining. Solving the mining issue became a symbol of finding diplomatic consensus. The book combines historiographic concepts of contingency, conjuncture and accidental events with theories of structural, entrepreneurial and intellectual leadership. Drawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030784045
• ISBN13: 9783030784041
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"