The New Sovereignty: Compliance with International Regulatory Agreements

by Antonia Handler Chayes and Abram Chayes

Book Overview

In an increasingly complex and interdependent world, states resort to a bewildering array of regulatory agreements to deal with problems as disparate as climate change, nuclear proliferation, international trade, satellite communications, species destruction, and intellectual property. In such a system, there must be some means of ensuring reasonably reliable performance of treaty obligations. The standard approach to this problem, by academics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674617835
• ISBN13: 9780674617834
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 417 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"