Keeping International Commitments: Compliance, Credibility and the G7, 1988-1995 / Edition 1

by Eleonore Kokotsis

Overview

This study is the first to offer explanations for compliance with G7 commitments by identifying the patterns, explaining the causes and exploring the processes of this compliance from 1988-1995. It provides the only systematic review of the G7's compliance record in the post-Cold War globalizing system of the 1990s and in regard to important environment and development commitments that have often dominated the Summit's agenda during this third cycle of summitry. It draws on explanatory factors for Summit compliance from three bodies of international relations theory-including regime theory, concert theory and the recent extension of regime theory to embrace the effects of domestic political institutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815333326
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/1999
Series:	Transnational Business and Corporate Culture
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1: Introduction; 2: Theory of G7 Summit Compliance; 3: Compliance with G7 Climate Change Commitments; 4: Compliance with G7 Biological Diversity Commitments; 5: Compliance with G7 Developing Country Debt Commitments; 6: Compliance With G7 International Assistance Initiatives: The Case Of Russia; 7: Summary and Conclusions

Editorial Reviews

Begins the task of identifying the patterns, explaining the causes, and exploring the processes of compliance with environmental and development commitments made by the richest countries in the world during the decade after the Cold War. Draws on explanatory factors from three bodies of international relations theory<-->regime, concert, and institutional theory<-->to provide a synthetic explanation of compliance. Also traces the process by which commitments are translated into national policy adjustment, by examining how the obligations affect and are affected by salient institutions and actors within a national government's policy-making process. Seems to have been a doctoral dissertation for the University of Toronto. US distribution is by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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