Reservations to Multilateral Treaties

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

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...

reservations to treaties and human rights committee general comment no. 24 (52)

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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 ...

Climate treaties and approaching catastrophes

If the threshold that triggers climate catastrophe is known with certainty, and the benefits of avoiding catastrophe are high relative to the costs, treaties can easily coordinate countries’ behavior so as to avoid the threshold. Where the net benefits of avoiding catastrophe are lower, treaties typically fail to help countries cooperate to avoid catastrophe, sustaining only modest cuts in emis...