Matthew Paterson

Matthew Paterson is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the political economy, global governance, and cultural politics of climate change. His books include the Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), Climate Capitalism (with Peter Newell, 2010, Cambridge) and the prize-winning Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (2007, Cambridge). He was a Lead Author for the 2014 report of the...See more

Matthew Paterson is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the political economy, global governance, and cultural politics of climate change. His books include the Global Warming and Global Politics (1996), Climate Capitalism (with Peter Newell, 2010, Cambridge) and the prize-winning Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (2007, Cambridge). He was a Lead Author for the 2014 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). See less