Expanding What Constitutes Global, Environmental, and Politics: Twenty-Five Years of Books in GEP

Abstract This Forum examines the 502 books, published between 1998 and 2024, reviewed in the journal from issue 1(1) to issue 25(1). Collectively, the books that have been reviewed give an indication of what issue areas, concepts, and geographic foci have been central to the research community that studies global environmental politics. Book titles that mention the term global, environmental, or politics make up the bulk of books reviewed in the journal. But what those books focus on has changed, from examining international environmental regimes and agreements in the first half of this period to looking at other governance forms as faith in institutions wanes. The geographic breadth and focus of the reviewed books have expanded, with increased attention to the role of states (especially China) and substate political jurisdictions. Though climate change predominates as an issue area, others, such as oceans, food, species, and other topics, are also well represented.