Canada’s Commitment to the “Ramsar” Convention

Explaining Commitment: States and the Convention against Torture

Why do states commit to international human rights treaties that may limit state sovereignty? Existing arguments focus on either the fear of domestic democratic instability or on international norms. We focus instead on the variation in three kinds of costs that states must pay to commit: policy change, unintended consequences, and limited flexibility. We use a discrete time-duration model to t...

convention and obligation in commitment

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Internal Restrictions to Iran's accession to the International Convention on the International Sale of Goods

Although the purpose of International Convention on the International sale of goods is not to unify the law of state parties, according to Article 9 of the Iranian Civil Code, “the Provisions of the treaties which has been concluded between the Iranian state and other states according to the Constitution are as valid as the Statute”. On the other hand according to the Article 4 of the Constitut...

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.

The Government of Samoa ratified the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees on 21 September 1988.

The commitment to care.