CONTENTS Series Forewordix 1 Introduction: Global Commons, Domestic Decisions1 Kathryn Harrison and Lisa Mclntosh Sundstrom 2 European Union Leadership in Climate Change: Mitigation through Multilevel Reinforcement23 Miranda A. Schreurs and Yves Tiberghien 3 The United States as Outlier: Economic and Institutional Challenges to US Climate Policy67 Kathryn Harrison 4 Russia and the Kyoto Protocol: From Hot Air to Implementation ?105 Laura A. Henry and Lisa Mclntosh Sundstrom 5 Climate Leadership, Japanese Style: Embedded Symbolism and Post-2001 Kyoto Protocol Politics139 Yves Tiberghien and Miranda A. Schreurs 6 The Struggle of Ideas and Self-interest in Canadian Climate Policy169 Kathryn Harrison 7 Climate Clever? Kyoto and Australia's Decade of Recalcitrance201 Kate Crowley 8 Chinese Climate Policy: Domestic Priorities, Foreign Policy, and Emerging Implementation 229 Gorild Heggelund, Steinar Andresen, and Inga Fritzen Buan 9 Conclusion: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change261 Kathryn Harrison and Lisa Mclntosh Sundstrom Contributors291 Series List 293 Index295