Henrik Selin has been at Boston University since 2004 and his research and teaching focuses on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. He is the author of EU and Environmental Governance and Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management. He is also the author and co-author of more than four dozen peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He also serves as Associate Editor for the journal Global Environmental Politics. Learn more about Professor Selin on his faculty profile.
Selin Co-Authors Book Chapter on Geopolitics of the Stockholm Conference
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations and Associate Dean for Studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, co-authored a book chapter on the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment – commonly referred to as the Stockholm Conference – and the geopolitical backdrop of it.
The book, titled Anthropocene (In)securities: Reflections on Collective Survival 50 Years After the Stockholm Conference, brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and policy experts to examine what security means in this new world of humanity’s own making. It asks how global institutions can respond to the systemic production of environmental risks and insecurities, and what political innovations are needed to chart a more sustainable path for global development in the decades to come.
Selin’s chapter, co-authored with Linköping University professor Björn-Ola Linnér, analyses the Stockholm Conference process from a geopolitical perspective. While the conference did alleviate some East-West divides – environment issues quickly revealing themselves as an area that required global collaboration – the authors argue that it also served to heighten tensions between the global North and South. The two conclude by reflecting on the historical importance and continuing relevance of the Stockholm Conference 50 years later.
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