Flexibility Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Treaties

Private authority in global environmental politics: Delegation to non-state actors in multilateral environmental treaties

In a recent editorial in the New York Times, David Brooks lamented the growing inability of states to address the world’s problems effectively: “The dispersion of power…means that more groups have effective veto power over collective action. In practice, this new pluralistic world has given rise to globosclerosis, an inability to solve problem after problem” (Brooks 2008). Pundits, policymakers...

Flexibility of Treaty Provisions as Regards Harm Reduction Approaches

3. Being this recent harm reduction was not foreseen by any of the international drug control treaties. Therefore, there is no treaty-based definition for it and there are no specific treaty provisions that may be applied to the concept as such, at least not in general terms. A useful, albeit non-binding definition has been outlined by UNDCP in its publication Demand Reduction – A glossary of T...

Meeting Global Challenges Through International Science And Technology Cooperation - A Glance At United Nations' Multilateral Treaties

The paper focuses on United Nations‘ multilateral treaties adopted for the purpose of international cooperation in science and technology (S&T) to provide a detailed and up-close grainy picture of how the world cooperates to address a vast area of global issues. On one hand, the paper measures the degree of global joint-commitment by the international community for major S&T agreements. On the ...

Reservations to Multilateral Treaties: How International Legal Doctrine Reflects World Vision

TRIPs-Plus Treaties and Strengthening Protection of Pharmaceutical Inventions

After concluding TRIPs agreement, the sphere of negotiation in respect of protecting new kinds of intellectual property rights especially pharmaceutical inventions transferred to bilateral and regional arrangements. TRIPs agreement has some flexibility to attract all countries. Industrialized countries believed that multilateral agreements protections based especially in regard of pharmaceutica...