The concepts surrounding a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty can be traced back to the early 50’s and are well described in Sullivan (1998). The verification regime of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty requires the establishment of an International Monitoring System (IMS) based on four different monitoring technologies: seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide. The first three te...

Behind pessimistic expectations regarding the future of an international climate treaty, substantial changes can be observed in company positions. Multinationals in the oil and car industries are increasingly moving toward support for the Kyoto Protocol, and take measures to address climate change. This article analyses developments in the oil industry over the past few years, observing conside...

The authors argue that the Digital Rights Management (DRM) provisions of Bill C-61– Canada's latest attempt at implementing its obligations under the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, inter alia – is ultra vires of Parliament's enumerated powers, and unconstitutionally intrudes into the Provincial legislative sphere. The DRM provisions of Bill C-61 represent...

On the basis of core – periphery paradigm international relations system and associated concept regional subsystems, analysis impact Rapallo treaty on in Central European subsystem Versailles is carried out. It established that formation prerequisites for conclusion largely related to specifics subsystem. included states were characterised by a different attitude system. Russia, which had not s...

amalgam whenever possible, and environmental protection from dental materials use, including, obviously, impacts from Hg. A new general-purpose restorative material is needed as an amalgam alternative. This transition is reviewed from the point of view of international efforts at prevention, coordination of Hg management with a UNEP treaty, concern for adverse reactions from any treatments, and...

The build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere has caused concern about possible global climate change. As a result, international negotiations have produced the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), completed during the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The treaty, which the United States has ratified, calls for the “stabilization of green...

This article summarises the existing international structures in Europe which collate data produced by surveillance systems in individual countries. The surveillance of influenza, tuberculosis, and other infections in Europe is undertaken by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the European Community (EC), and national and international organisations set up to study specific diseases. The surve...

Our novel quality index is based on citations from international search reports and provides internationally comparable, quality-adjusted figures for applications made under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). We show that China’s recent patent expansion has taken place to the detriment of patent quality. Weighting national PCT counts with our index reveals a widening gap between the technolog...