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- Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The MIT Press
- Series: Earth System Governance
summary
Secretariats -- the administrative arms of international treaties -- -would seem simply to do the bidding of member states. And yet, Sikina Jinnah argues in Post-Treaty Politics, secretariats can play an important role in world politics. On paper, secretariats collect information, communicate with state actors, and coordinate diplomatic activity. In practice, they do much more. As Jinnah shows, they can influence the allocation of resources, structures of interstate cooperation, and the power relationships between states.Jinnah examines secretariat influence through the lens of overlap management in environmental governance -- how secretariats help to manage the dense interplay of issues, rules, and norms between international treaty regimes. Through four case studies, she shows that secretariats can draw on their unique networks and expertise to handle the challenges of overlap management, emerging as political actors in their own right. After presenting a theory and analytical framework for analyzing secretariat influence, Jinnah examines secretariat influence on overlap management within the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), two cases of overlap management in the World Trade Organization, as well as a case in which the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) secretariat failed to influence political outcomes despite its efforts to manage overlap. Jinnah argues that, even when modest, secretariat influence matters because it can establish a path-dependent dynamic that continues to guide state behavior even after secretariat influence has waned.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Series Foreword
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xix-xx
- 3 The Analytics of Influence
- pp. 41-66
- 6 Trade-Environment Politics at the WTO
- pp. 121-146
- 7 The Limits of Secretariat Influence
- pp. 147-178
- 8 Conclusions
- pp. 179-196
- Appendix A: Case-Specific Methods
- pp. 197-200
- References
- pp. 213-234
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262325356
Related ISBN(s)
9780262028042
MARC Record
OCLC
894227207
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2014-12-02
Language
English
Open Access
No