348 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why do some states resist entering into international treaty regimes while others demonstrate eagerness to participate? Although factors such as degree of pressure exerted by international actors, ambiguity in the treaty language and a regime's 'lack of teeth' (enforcement and sanctioning mechanism) do affect participation, this book investigates whether internal (domestic) factors may ultimately... Read more
List of Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1 Conceptualizing State Participation and Resistance with Multilateral Treaty Regimes; Chapter 2 Probing the Organizational Structure of Treaty Regimes and its Influence on Participation and Resistance; Chapter 3 State Participation in Multilateral Environmental and Security Regimes; Chapter 4 State Participation in Multilateral Human Rights Regimes; Chapter 5 The Case of the United States; Chapter 6 The Case of China; Chapter 7 State Resistance and Participation in Treaty Regimes: A Macro-Assessment;
Biography
Srini Sitaraman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations, Clark University, USA.
'...provides a sustained account of the relationship between domestic political orders and participation in international treaty regimes. A particularly appealing feature of the analysis is the combination of in-depth case studies of American and Chinese participation in human rights regimes and extensive descriptive statistics covering a much broader range of treaty regimes. Oran R Young, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
