The Making of the International Solar Alliance
India's Moment in the Sun
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9780198884705
Publication date:
17/01/2024
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224 pages
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ISBN:
9780198884705
Publication date:
17/01/2024
Hardback
224 pages
Vyoma Jha
This book presents a case study of the creation of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) as a treaty-based international organization. Drawing on the political economy approach in the study of international law, it identifies the politics, players, and process behind the making of the ISA.
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Vyoma Jha
Description
This book is the first empirical account on the making of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). Announced jointly by India and France on the first day of the Paris climate talks in 2015, the ISA was conceived as a coalition of ‘solar-rich’ countries located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn for optimal absorption of the sun’s rays. These ‘solar-rich’ countries are mostly developing countries that witness almost three hundred sunny days in a year but face major gaps in the deployment of solar energy. In less than two years, the ISA—led by India and backed primarily by developing countries—became a legal entity. With no perceivable competitive advantage in solar manufacturing or technologies, what explains India’s relative success in bringing together countries to form a new international organization focused on solar energy? Why did India insist on a treaty structure for the ISA? What are the transaction costs of bringing the ‘solar-rich’ countries vis-à-vis the ‘solar-poor’ countries on board? What was the role of France in the treaty-making process? Responding to these questions, the book draws on the political economy approach to analyse the motivations for India to steer a new treaty-based international organization. It presents the empirical evidence and arguments using three frames: process, politics, and players. Ultimately, the book illustrates a new kind of Indian economic diplomacy, making the ISA the first deliberate instrument of India’s foreign policy on climate change and energy.
About the author:
Vyoma Jha is a socio-legal scholar and completed her doctoral degree in law and political economy from Stanford University. She holds law degrees from Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law, and National Law University, Jodhpur. She writes and teaches on issues of climate change law and policy; international economic law and its linkages with climate change; and India’s energy foreign policy. She is a Senior Advocate for the India Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Vyoma Jha
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Channeling the Sun: Political Economy of Solar Energy in India
Chapter 3 Process: India, International Rulemaking, and the International Solar Alliance
Chapter 4 Politics: India's Political Leadership and Climate Change
Chapter 5 Players: The Role of India's Foreign Policy in Shaping a New Global Identity
Chapter 6 Conclusion
Vyoma Jha
Description
This book is the first empirical account on the making of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). Announced jointly by India and France on the first day of the Paris climate talks in 2015, the ISA was conceived as a coalition of ‘solar-rich’ countries located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn for optimal absorption of the sun’s rays. These ‘solar-rich’ countries are mostly developing countries that witness almost three hundred sunny days in a year but face major gaps in the deployment of solar energy. In less than two years, the ISA—led by India and backed primarily by developing countries—became a legal entity. With no perceivable competitive advantage in solar manufacturing or technologies, what explains India’s relative success in bringing together countries to form a new international organization focused on solar energy? Why did India insist on a treaty structure for the ISA? What are the transaction costs of bringing the ‘solar-rich’ countries vis-à-vis the ‘solar-poor’ countries on board? What was the role of France in the treaty-making process? Responding to these questions, the book draws on the political economy approach to analyse the motivations for India to steer a new treaty-based international organization. It presents the empirical evidence and arguments using three frames: process, politics, and players. Ultimately, the book illustrates a new kind of Indian economic diplomacy, making the ISA the first deliberate instrument of India’s foreign policy on climate change and energy.
About the author:
Vyoma Jha is a socio-legal scholar and completed her doctoral degree in law and political economy from Stanford University. She holds law degrees from Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law, and National Law University, Jodhpur. She writes and teaches on issues of climate change law and policy; international economic law and its linkages with climate change; and India’s energy foreign policy. She is a Senior Advocate for the India Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Channeling the Sun: Political Economy of Solar Energy in India
Chapter 3 Process: India, International Rulemaking, and the International Solar Alliance
Chapter 4 Politics: India's Political Leadership and Climate Change
Chapter 5 Players: The Role of India's Foreign Policy in Shaping a New Global Identity
Chapter 6 Conclusion
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