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Environment and Statecraft - The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making (Paperback)
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Environment and Statecraft - The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making (Paperback)
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Environmental problems like global climate change and stratospheric
ozone depletion can only be remedied if states cooperate with one
another. But sovereign states usually care only about their own
interests. So states must somehow restructure the incentives to
make cooperation pay. This is what treaties are meant to do.
A few treaties, such as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that
Deplete the Ozone Layer, succeed. Most, however, fail to alter the
state behavior appreciably. This book develops theory that explains
both the successes and the failures. In particular, the book
explains when treaties are needed, why some work better than
others, and how treaty design can be improved. The best treaties
strategically manipulate the incentives states have to exploit the
environment, and the theory developed in this book shows how
treaties can do this.
The theory integrates a number of disciplines, including
economics, political science, international law, negotiation
analysis, and game theory. It also offers a coherent and consistent
approach. The essential assumption is that treaties be
self-enforcing that is, individually rational, collectively
rational and fair.
The book applies the theory to a number of environmental problems.
It provides information on more than three-hundred treaties, and
analyses a number of case studies in detail. These include
depletion of the ozone layer, whaling, pollution of the Rhine, acid
rain, over-fishing, pollution of the oceans, and global climate
change.
The essential lesson of the book is that treaties should not just
tell countries what to do. Treaties must make it in the interests
of countries to behave differently. That is, they mustrestructure
the underlying game. Most importantly, they must create incentives
for states to participate in a treaty and for parties to comply.
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