Pamela Chasek

Pamela S. Chasek, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Government at Manhattan College. She is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is widely published on the topic of international environmental policy.

Academic focus

She focuses her research and her lecturing on international environmental policy, multilateral diplomacy and negotiations and US foreign policy. Her specialization is in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

Education

Dr. Chasek received her BA degree from Middlebury College and her MA at the University of Miami. She received a second MA from Johns Hopkins University, where she also completed her Ph.D. Her Ph.D. is in international studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins Universtity.

Honors and awards

• 2007: Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for research at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Professional memberships

She is a member of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association at Manhattan College. She is also the founder and editor of Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a reporting service on United Nations environment and development negotiations.

==Books and book chapters==

• Chasek, Pamela S. and Lynn M. Wagner. The Road to Rio: Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations. New York: Routledge, 2012.
• Chasek, Pamela S., David L. Downie and Janet Welsh Brown. Global Environmental Politics, fifth edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 2010.
• Chasek, Pamela S. and Richard Sherman. Ten Days in Johannesburg: A Negotiation of Hope. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2004.
• Chasek, Pamela S. Earth Negotiations: Analyzing thirty years of environmental diplomacy. Tokyo: UNU Press, 2001.
• Chasek, Pamela S., ed. The Global Environment in the 21st Century: Prospects for International Cooperation. Tokyo: UNU Press, 2000.
• Chasek, Pamela S. “Sustainable Development in the 21st Century” in Michael Snarr and D. Neil Snarr, eds Introducing Global Issues, fourth edition. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008.
• Chasek, Pamela S. “International Climate Change Politics: Looking Beyond 2012” in Jonathan Boston, ed. Towards a New Global Climate Treaty: Looking Beyond 2012. Wellington, New Zealand: Institute of Policy Studies, 2007.
• Chasek, Pamela S. “The Negotiating System of Environment and Development: A ten-year review” in Gunnar Sjöstedt, Elisabeth Corell and Angela Churie Kallhauge, eds. Global Challenges: Furthering the multilateral policy process, Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2005.
• Chasek, Pamela S. “Environmental Organizations and Multilateral Diplomacy: A Case Study of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin” in James P. Muldoon, Jr., et al, eds. Multilateral Diplomacy and the United Nations Today, third edition. Boulder: Westview, 2005.
• Chasek, Pamela S. “The Ozone Depletion Regime,” in Bertram Specter and I. William Zartman, ed. Getting it Done: Post Agreement Negotiations and International Regimes. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2003.
• Chasek, Pamela S. “Negotiations on the Convention to Combat Desertification,” in Gunnar Sjöstedt, ed. Professional Cultures in International Negotiation: Bridge or Rift? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.
• Chasek, Pamela S. “Steps Toward Enhanced Parity: Negotiating Capacity and Strategies of Developing Countries,” in Inge Kaul, ed. Providing Global Public Goods: Making Globalization Work for All. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 (with Lavanya Rajamani).
• Chasek, Pamela S. “Scientific Uncertainty in Environmental Negotiations” in Ho-Won Jeong, ed. Global Environmental Policies. London: Palgrave, 2001.
• Chasek, Pamela S. "The Story of the UNCED Process" and "The Negotiating System of Environment and Development." in Gunnar Sjöstedt, Bertram Spector and I. William Zartman, eds. Negotiating International Regimes: Lessons Learned from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. London: Graham and Trotman, 1994.