ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER TEORİLERİ II

A green theorist, or ecologist, mainly argues that the development of technology is posing a threat to human existence and other species as well.

The first international treaty on flora (plants) was signed in 1889 in Bern, Switzerland to prevent the spread of plant disease affecting vineyards in Europe.

During the 1980s, environmental politics, women and gender issues, peacemaking and nuclear non-proliferation played the main role in green politics, and first green political parties were established in Europe.

End of the Cold War is an important turning point for international environmental politics as during the Cold War it was harder to cope with environmental problems because of two reasons; arms race and bipolar world order.

Environmentalists accept the framework of the current political, social and economic structures of world politics as it is and believe that those problems can be solved within those structures

“ Thinking green” is an idea, held by environmentalists, that has a concern about the environmental issues like acid rains, global warming and so on, but they argue that these problems can be solved through international cooperation.

The Greens argue that the search for a state-centered solution was doomed to fail. Instead, they offer the idea of decentralization -which has hampered the state as a central actor- at the center of green politics.

Other than state’s security, liberals are also concerned with the security of individuals and institutions.

Shallow environmentalists do not criticize the social, political and economic status quo.

In conclusion, Greens think that extensive trade is the main cause of the crumble of both the independence of nations and economic security.

Green political thinking generally is seen as a new ideology emerging at the end of the twentieth century while the first ecological movements can be traced back to the nineteenth-century rebels against industrialization.

Environmentalism and Green Theory have some fundamental differences.

During the 1980s, environmental politics, women and gender issues, peacemaking and nuclear non-proliferation played the main role in green politics, and first green political parties were established in Europe.

International awareness on pollution and environmental problems began to increase after the Second World War when economic boom during the post-War years provided problems as well as benefits, and environmental problems stood out among the former.

During the Cold War it was harder to cope with environmental problems because of two reasons; arms race and bipolar world order.

Greens see current political, social and economic structures of world politics as the main reason of the environmental problems and suggest that those structures must be challenged (Paterson, 2005: 236).

The view of “Green Thought” is more nature-centered.

Green international relations theory has an ecocentric world view and do not prioritize human or human based structures to the non-human world. Green perspective to security, encompasses the security of the whole nature.

Green theorists claim that states are reluctant about the solution of problems concerning common goods.

Some basic arguments of Green theory -like the limits to growth — depends on the numbers from the very early years of the environmental problems. So, claims of the Greens should be supported by the modern numbers and scientific knowledge.