Giant international trade treaties centre on science

International Treaties on Global Pollution: a Dynamic Time-path Analysis

In this paper we show that the formation of coalitions by subsets of countries might diminish the likelihood of a successful worldwide treaty on global pollution. Non-member countries may be less willing to sign a world-wide treaty than they would be in the absence of such coalitions. In fact, the coalition formation may raise the reservation utility of non-member countries above the world-wide...

Effects of International Human Rights Treaties

Bilateral Investment Treaties and International Integration

This paper studies how bilateral investment treaties (BITs) affect the trade integration between partner countries. While the overall results from the full sample show that BIT signing is associated with an increase in overall imports that is generally smaller than the effect of WTO membership, BIT signing is found to have a considerable effect on capital goods imports and on imports of differe...

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 ...

International treaties. Comprehensive test ban: the long road.

Watching the waves IMS also has a smaller network of sensors to listen for explosions carried out underwater, just above the ocean surface, or below the ocean bottom. Sound travels very efficiently in water: Kiyoshi Suyehiro of the Institute for Research on Earth Evolution in Kanagawa, Japan, says a 20-kilogram test charge of TNT was detected 16,000 kilometers away. As a result, IMS has just 11...