Coalition formation in International Environmental Agreements. A Literature review.

Abstract

The following paper is an attempt to highlight the scientific progress that was made in the coalition formation literature during the past two decades. Firstly, it presents a comparative description of three baseline papers (Carraro & Siniscalco 1993, Barrett 1994, Diamantoudi & Sartzetakis 2006) that emphasized the majority of an international environmental agreement’s characteristics. Secondly, it gives special importance to two papers that, at first sight, adopt a rather unorthodox point of view (Heugues (2009) and Marrouch & Chaudhuri(2011)) and finally examines the most important details of some promising scientific fields such as uncertainty and asymmetry introduction.