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The Research Of The Class Nature Of State Interest In Climate Politics Use Of Marxism State Theory

Posted on:2014-01-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C L XingFull Text:PDF
GTID:2246330398494490Subject:Basic principles of Marxism
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In order to cope with the impact of global warming which brings to human beings, the international community conducts protracted negotiations on the basis of existing environmental statutes and codes of conduct, and then they want to reach a legally binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and deadlines. However, despite the urgent problems, international cooperation is still difficult to achieve.In the end, what is the barrier to global climate cooperation? What is the plight of climate governance? Previous research on this issue has a number of perspectives; the existing framework has certain persuasion. Anarchy resulted in international public goods supply which is facing more difficult, each country in the climate control were demonstrated in "hitchhike" tendency; and the contradictory between individual rationality and collective rationality is inevitable, then it requirements for the "collective action" to provide "selective incentives" system. Comparison of two level game theory which integrated domestic and international factors, the theory of public products and the logic of collective action theory is the "national" as the basic unit of analysis from the international political analysis problem. However, from the political to the "national" research, the action which regards "nation" as an internal contradiction and dispute unified action body practices is clearly not realistic, and it ignores the complexity of domestic political factors.Further research on the domestic factors is of great significance to understand the international climate negotiation dilemma and its essence. The formation of international environmental regimes is the result of coordination between countries which is based on the domestic political game. Any climate policy of the state all involve interest allocation and repartition problem, and it will not only impact the national interest structure current situation but also matter to interest balance system reconstruction problem. National self-interest is the origin factors which decide to national policies and behavior, International pressure and international image will have a substantial impact on state behavior. The domestic political factors analysis is the key to hold problems. Then, how is the domestic political subject to perform complex interest game? Who is "national" tending to represent the interests in the process of climate policy making? Is the national interest on behalf of the interests of all? How to define national interests? In order to answer the problems such as dilemma and essence of global climate governance and so on, at the microscopic level in domestic politics, it is necessary first to do scientific research on the problems such as "the state of nature" and "the interests of the state property" and so on.Marxism state theory has answered national essence problem, and it has the special explanation on the nature of the country and national interest property issues in climate politics.Marxism state theory thinks that the essence of the state is the ruling class tool and national interest is to "general interest" as the manifestation of the ruling class "special interests". At the same time, the interest of the state also has the features which regard economic interests as the main body and national features such as selfish. In Marx’s theory of the state,"class" concept is the main factor analysis. Contemporary society and "class" concept which belong to the same unit of analysis is the "class" and "interest group" concept, the interest group is the most sensitive beneficiaries or impaired persons of the national policies and is the main economic burden. Therefore, it is the most active and the most powerful factor in effecting of government policies.Through the analysis of the last twenty years the United States Interests basic status and its influence on government climate policy implications, this article will study the modern countries in the property issues in the game of climate politics, and to further explore the domestic reasons which hinder global climate cooperation. Studies suggest that the U.S government’s climate policy often mainly represents the interests of the class which predominate the economy and its interests accord with government officials and members of congress "ruling class". In the climate politics, the interests of the state is not the interests of all, the interests of the state has a strong class bias. Countries with "national interest" appearance make the special interest group will be packaged and transformed into a "national interest", then it makes on the surface the state on behalf of all social members’interests, but in fact countries’ maintenance of the "national interest" in climate negotiations in is the power elite "special interests". In the nation-state, safeguarding interests of some people is root cause which hampered each nation to participate in the Global Climate Governance.
Keywords/Search Tags:the politics of climate, the nature of state interest, class, interest group, Greenhouse gas emission
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