Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements

International Institutions and Domestic Politics: Can Preferential Trading Agreements Help Leaders Promote Economic Reform?

Government’s Powers and FTAs: The Effect of Domestic and Foreign Powers on Multilateral Trade

This paper elaborates on the government's powers - both at the domestic level and over foreign countries. The domestic power is the power against domestic lobbies, and the foreign one is the government's international power. To do so, this paper tries to evaluate the effects of these powers   on the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs). The theoretical framework follows an oligopolistic-po...

Putting the Party Back In: Explaining EU Member State Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, 1998-2003

Why do some countries comply with their treaty obligations, even when those obligations impose a heavy political burden? Past analyses have shown domestic politics plays an important role. Downs et al (1996) and Von Stein (2005) argue that countries most readily enter into treaties when they would comply with the obligations anyway. Furthermore, Pahre and Papayanou (1997) and Dai (2005, 2006) p...

The Rhetorical - Aesthetic Approach to Constructing the Relation between Images and Visual Inventions with Global Politics

Images and photos play an important role in our understanding of domestic and international events. Today we are living in the age of the visualization of politics. The images are vague, rhetorical, and aesthetic components of political and social phenomena and can give them a beautiful or detestable structure. In the digital age, images in and of themselves can define our structure and vision ...

International Trade Agreements , Environmental Policy , and Emergence of Multinational Firms ∗

During recent decades there has been substantial momentum for trade liberalization. At the same time, multinational production has become increasingly important in international competition. In this paper we show that these phenomena may be linked through environmental policy. When the national governments cannot use direct trade policy measures, environmental policy is distorted towards enhanc...