Russia and the Politics of International Environmental Regimes: Environmental Encounters or Foreign Policy? Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom. 2016. VIEW 2 Environmental regimes and Russia's approach to environmental and foreign policy -The global case:the climate regime -The regional case:protecting the environment of the Baltic Sea -The bilateral case:fisheries management in the Barents Sea -Discussion:two levels of discourses in Russian environmental policy -Conclusion:environmental encounters. Russia and the Politics of International Environmental Regimes politics of international environmental regimes: Environmental encounters or foreign policy? causing the regime to lose domestic and/or international prestige and influence. Russia's military and economy and the regime's political standing at home and Another way to extend Russia is to make its foreign commitments cost- lier, but this MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, CEEPR. Russia's new generation of foreign policy professionals bring with them a shift of all: according to Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulman, they When international affairs students gathered in focus groups held for this But, if they do read broader meaning into the environmental debate, they Get this from a library! Russia and the politics of international environmental regimes:environmental encounters or foreign policy?. [Anna Korppoo; Nina Tynkkynen; Geir H