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Recent Books on International Law

David Victor has emerged as something of an enfant terrible within the community of those seeking to solve large-scale environmental problems through the creation of international institutions, or regimes, as they are commonly called. The fact that he has criticized accepted practices and mainstream views in a manner that is both trenchant and generally lucid makes him a force to be reckoned with. In The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol, Victor, a senior fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, takes direct aim at the architecture of the climate regime as outlined in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (KP), together with subsequent agreements on detailed procedures (the 2001 Bonn Agreements and Marrakesh Accords) needed to implement its provisions, and concludes this arrangement to be so flawed that it cannot yield the results desired. What is more, he argues, this is the case whether the United States ultimately agrees to participate in the climate regime or not. Understandably, those who have labored for a decade and longer to create an effective climate regime are dismayed— even angered—by this reasoning. Yet this is no reason to reject Victor's argument out of hand or to avoid a critical assessment of his reasoning. On the contrary, the challenge that he lays down deserves careful scrutiny and a thoughtful response.