Historicizing Global Environmental Politics Abstract. This article makes the case for a deeper integration of historical perspectives into the study of global environmental politics (GEP). A review of the Global Environmental Politics journal’s first twenty-five years reveals how, despite its multidisciplinary ethos, history remains marginal to the research agenda that characterizes its output. The article identifies three uses of historical perspectives that can enrich GEP scholarship. First, historical methods help establish more reliable knowledge of the past and provide historical perspective to contemporary debates on how to tackle environmental problems. Second, historical approaches promote greater reflexivity in the use of social scientific frameworks, for example, when it comes to historical periodization and identifying relevant political agency. Third, history highlights the inherent temporality of our knowledge of the past and our social scientific theories. The article concludes with a call for greater engagement with environmental history to broaden GEP’s theoretical horizon and presents historicization as essential to fostering a more self-reflective, critical, and temporally grounded understanding of global environmental politics.

📑 Read Professor @robertfalkner.bsky.social's publication, "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics," published in a special issue of @gepjournal.bsky.social.

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Packed rooms for GEP 25th anniversary panels at ISA this week. @gepjournal.bsky.social @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social @kmoneill.bsky.social @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @devoncantwell.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @robertfalkner.bsky.social @bethdesombre.bsky.social

Volume 26 Issue 1 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press Global Environmental Politics | 26 | 1 | February 2026

Global Environmental Politics celebrates 25 years of impactful scholarship with a special anniversary issue, "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics." We're pleased to make this landmark issue available to read for free through May: direct.mit.edu/glep/issue @gepjournal.bsky.social

Robert Falkner on why history is key to the future of global environmental politics YouTube video by Global Environmental Politics Journal

History is key to the future of GEP, per @robertfalkner.bsky.social.

Find out why in this clip of a longer conversation with Cristina Inoue—and in Falkner's 25th Anniversary Special Issue paper, "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics": direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

youtu.be/HsI8xFmqMC0

Christina Inoue on "foresting" the field of global environmental politics YouTube video by Global Environmental Politics Journal

On the 25th anniversary of this journal, Cristina Inoue, in this clip of a longer conversation with @robertfalkner.bsky.social, describes how to open up new ways of knowing & researching global environmental politics by "foresting" the field.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbsA...

GEP 25th Anniversary Special Issue: Reflections by former GEP editor Mat Paterson YouTube video by Global Environmental Politics Journal

P.S. You can watch Mat's full reflections on editing the GEP journal here, including advice on submitting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQm...

Past GEP editor Mat Paterson on the key to writing good journal reviews YouTube video by Global Environmental Politics Journal

Past GEP editor @matpaterson.bsky.social on generosity as the key to being a good journal reviewer: "Be a gardener, not a gatekeeper."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQhR...

Stay tuned for more videos in celebration of GEP's 25th Anniversary (& associated Special Issue, direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...).

Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production Abstract. Supply-side climate policy initiatives that restrict fossil fuel production are gathering momentum. A growing body of academic scholarship seeks to understand this new frontier in global cli...

Check out our new article "Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production" co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social and Daniela Soto Hernandez in @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

@stacydvandeveer.bsky.social @kateoneill.bsky.social @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @harrietbulkeley.bsky.social,
@lslothuus.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social, @vegardtorstad.bsky.social @bethdesombre.bsky.social, @tlemosribeiro.bsky.social @hannahhughes.bsky.social @raulpachecovega.bsky.social

Featuring work by @dgweb121.bsky.social, @henrikselin.bsky.social, @matthoffmann.bsky.social, @yixiansun.bsky.social, @fengshiwu.bsky.social, @devoncantwell.bsky.social, @matpaterson.bsky.social @peternewell.bsky.social, @joannalewis.bsky.social, @robertfalkner.bsky.social, & others not on Bluesky!

Volume 26 Issue 1 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.

Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence Abstract. Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and...

What do the key trends in international relations mean for the study on global environmental politics?

New overview article in @gepjournal.bsky.social by crack team @yixiansun.bsky.social, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, @matpaterson.bsky.social et al.

direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

I was honored to write this @gepjournal.bsky.social article with a stellar group of environmental politics scholars. As we are entering a new geopolitical order, it's important to bring geopolitics fully back into the study of global environmental politics! @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social

New in @gepjournal.bsky.social: "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics."

The article is part of the journal's 25th anniversary special issue, which is forthcoming later this year.

direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

@lseir.bsky.social

📢 Student essay competition on environmental agreements.
🥇 The Ronald Mitchell Prize
📅 Deadline : Feb 1, 2026
💰 500 $
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@isaess.bsky.social @esgproject.bsky.social @gepjournal.bsky.social

Silver Lining to Extreme Weather Events? Democracy and Climate Change Mitigation Abstract. Long-standing meteorological research has established that anthropogenic climate change increases the risk and intensity of extreme weather events, such as tropical cyclones, floods, and for...

Do extreme weather events have an effect on climate policy? In this @gepjournal.bsky.social piece, @thisislauri.bsky.social examines the relationship between external shocks and policy action.
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

GEP is on LinkedIn! Follow us here:

www.linkedin.com/company/glob...

Volume 25 Issue 4 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

GEP's Special Issue on "The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions" is now out, guest edited by Chuks Okereke, Ken Mbeva, Reuben Makomere. Several articles are available open access, including the introduction. Check them out at the link below!

direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

Multilateral Climate Finance in Pursuit of Private Capital: How the De-Risking Agenda Is Changing International Organizations Abstract. In the last decade, international financial institutions have advocated that multilateral funding be leveraged to reduce the risk of institutional investors, such as pensions and mutual fund...

New paper @gepjournal.bsky.social

“Multilateral Climate Finance and the Pursuit of Private Capital: How the De-Risking Agenda is Changing IOs”

Thanks to @kellogginstitute.bsky.social for research support!

What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits Abstract. Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass cei...

With Caroline Ahler Christesen and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, we asked: what can the environmental state actually do?
The answer is out now with @gepjournal.bsky.social 👇

If you ever wondered about this, check our paper and let us know what you think: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: We now invite scholars to apply for either a complete Special Issue or a shorter Special Section to be published in Global Environmental Politics in 2027. Proposals due by November 1, 2025. Please repost & share!

Special Issue/Section guest editor guidelines here:
direct.mit.edu/glep/pages/s...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: We now invite scholars to apply for either a complete Special Issue or a shorter Special Section to be published in Global Environmental Politics in 2027. Proposals due by November 1, 2025. Please repost & share!

Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene – just published by Bruna Bosi-Moreira & @mattkranke.bsky.social in @gepjournal.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira.
👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press Global Environmental Politics | 25 | 3 | August 2025

Global Environmental Politics' August issue, guest edited by Bruna Bosi-Moreira and
@mattkranke.bsky.social, is a special issue on global green visions and world order in the Anthropocene: direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2... @gepjournal.bsky.social

If you haven't had a chance to swing by table 113 during #APSA2025, now's the time! Come by and browse some of our latest books and journals. Here are some of our recommendations 👇 @apsa.bsky.social

📢 Excited to share that this collection has now been published in @gepjournal.bsky.social – thanks to my wonderful co-guest editor Bruna and all our great contributors!

➡️ The introduction is open access: direct.mit.edu/glep/article....

Featuring work by @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @justinalger.bsky.social, Cristina Inoue, Cristina Espinosa, Esther Wahabu, Nanang Kurniawan, & Bruna Bosi-Moreira, among others, as well as a book review of Jonathan Silver's "The Infrastructural South" by @devoncantwell.bsky.social.

Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

GEP's Special Issue on "Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene" is now live! This thought-provoking collection was guest edited by Bruna Bosi-Moreira & @mattkranke.bsky.social.