Calling all to decarbonize: multilateralism and policy-making at the times of world order transition.

The present paper reports about studying UNFCCC policymaking by employing the opposite number of the state-centric approach, which is overwhelmingly preferred by political scientists. The present analysis of the climate change policymaking is grounded on the systemic and structuractionist approach. It generates knowledge about the UNFCCC policymaking by relying on the view that world politics is the politics for producing policies applying to and binding all the states to respond to collective problems. In particular, the present research aims at developing knowledge about multilateral policymaking in the current phase of order transition. Multilateralism has been the hallmark of the first phase of the American world order and has been considered as the valued way of making policies also in the following phases. But multilateralism has been increasingly de-legitimised by both the American hegemony sponsor and challenger parties. The paper argues that one of the major reasons for the long stay of the policy response to the climate change problem in the world policymaking pipeline is that multilateralism is in hard times at the world order transition time.