Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
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Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
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Overview
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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262325363 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Publication date: | 10/31/2014 |
| Series: | Earth System Governance |
| Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 272 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Oran R. Young is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (MIT Press) and other books.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword ix
Foreword Oran R. Young xi
Acknowledgments xv
List of Abbreviations xix
1 Introduction: Secretariats as Overlap Managers 1
2 Secretariats in Theory and Practice 21
3 The Analytics of Influence 41
4 Origins of Overlap Management in the Biodiversity Regime Complex 67
5 Marketing the Climate-Biodiversity Interface 93
6 Trade-Environment Politics at the WTO 121
7 The Limits of Secretariat Influence: CITES and the Protection of Commercially Exploited Aquatic Species 147
8 Conclusions 179
Appendix A Case-Specific Methods 197
Appendix B Details of Coding Procedure Used in Chapter 5 201
Notes 205
References 213
Index 235
What People are Saying About This
In this pioneering book, Sikina Jinnah adeptly explores the independent roles that treaty secretariats play in international relations. Her sophisticated analysis of how and when secretariats influence policy-making, and the ways in which this matters, is essential reading to anyone interested in bureaucratic politics,
international organizations, and global environmental governance.
Jinnah demonstrates -- in theory and in practice -- that treaty secretariats and the civil servants inhabiting them shape global politics. Her framework reveals that such influence varies across issues, organizations, and time,
laying the foundations for many years of research and knowledge building.
In this pioneering book, Sikina Jinnah adeptly explores the independent roles that treaty secretariats play in international relations. Her sophisticated analysis of how and when secretariats influence policy-making, and the ways in which this matters, is essential reading to anyone interested in bureaucratic politics, international organizations, and global environmental governance.
—Henrik Selin, The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Post-Treaty Politics sheds much-needed light on the role that international secretariats play in shaping the preferences of the states involved in international environmental institutions and the relationships among those states. Jinnah's systematic and rigorous theoretical framework makes a major contribution to our understanding of when and how secretariats influence global environmental governance.
—Ronald B. Mitchell, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon; author of Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty ComplianceJinnah demonstrates—in theory and in practice—that treaty secretariats and the civil servants inhabiting them shape global politics. Her framework reveals that such influence varies across issues, organizations, and time, laying the foundations for many years of research and knowledge building.
—Stacy D. VanDeveer, Professor of Political Science, University of New HampshireIn this pioneering book, Sikina Jinnah adeptly explores the independent roles that treaty secretariats play in international relations. Her sophisticated analysis of how and when secretariats influence policy-making, and the ways in which this matters, is essential reading to anyone interested in bureaucratic politics, international organizations, and global environmental governance.
—Henrik Selin, The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Post-Treaty Politics sheds much-needed light on the role that international secretariats play in shaping the preferences of the states involved in international environmental institutions and the relationships among those states. Jinnah's systematic and rigorous theoretical framework makes a major contribution to our understanding of when and how secretariats influence global environmental governance.