The Multilateral Treaty Reservation Revisited

Compliance Politics: A Critical Analysis of Multilateral Arms Control Treaty Enforcement Viewpoint

At the height of the Cold War, most analysis of security cooperation focused on bilateral USSoviet arms control. Today, more of the focus has shifted to multilateral agreements; this makes it important to determine the circumstances under which compliance with these agreements can be assured. This viewpoint sketches out some ideas about the factors that foster and impede compliance, and uses th...

On the Reservation Wages and Liquidity Constraint

This paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. The optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...

Constitutional Treaty Between Problem - Solving Treaty and Rights - Based Constitution

Beefing up the bioweapons treaty

Alongside support for renewed funding for microbiological research, many scientists are also backing a greater role for international agreements to control potential biological weapons. But such efforts present considerable challenges. One of Britain's leading microbiologists, Hugh Pennington at Aberdeen University, has written of the ease of obtaining agents such as anthrax. " In principle any...

Treaty Compliance and Violation