Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea: Public Ideas ... - IMO

x Preface
International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) in Oslo. I
have benefited much from presentations and discussions of my empirical
findings and theoretical argument in Florence, Cambridge, and Oslo. The
book has benefited greatly from the comments and suggestions of two
anonymous reviewers and one non-anonymous reviewer, Edward L. Miles.
I have received useful comments and suggestions for improvements from
Giandomenico Majone, Olav Schram Stokke, Arild Underdal, and Jørgen
Wettestad. And Nazli Choucri, Clay Morgan, and Paul Bethge helped me
navigate the waters of the academic publishing world.
Others also helped significantly. I am particularly grateful to Jesper
Grolin, who provided me with key documents and much-needed encouragement
at a crucial early point. Over the years, officials in the Environmental
Protection Agency in Copenhagen, in particular Kjeld F. Jørgensen
and Bente Mortensen, never failed to answer my questions and inquiries,
and the secretariat at the International Maritime Organization kindly
allowed me to observe the fourteenth consultative meeting of the parties to
the London Convention in London in 1991. I also wish to thank the many
interviewees who took time to share their knowledge and expertise with
me. I gratefully acknowledge the financial support received from the Danish
Social Science Research Council, the Danish Research Academy, the
Fulbright Commission, Consul Axel Nielsen’s Foundation, the Denmark-
America Foundation, EUI, and CICERO.
Portions of chapters 8 and 9 were originally published in different form
in my article “Environmental NGOs and Regime Change: The Case of
Ocean Dumping of Radioactive Waste” (European Journal of International
Relations 3 (1997), no. 1: 61–104; © 1997 Sage Publications).
I am grateful to my parents, John Ringius and Hanne Duetoft, who
stimulated my early interest in politics and have continuously been fine
sources of intellectual inspiration and support. I am finally indebted to Jill
Ringius, without whose support and patience this book probably would
not have been written. Because of her many fine suggestions for improvements,
the book is both more readable and more coherent than it otherwise
would have been.