POLI 2403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kyoto Protocol, Study Guide, Texas State Highway Loop 1
28 May 2017
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Study guide online in next couple days- will go over this on thursday. High number of treaties written and enforced concerning different issues- not always centralized. Fragmentation is value neutral- can be negative or positive o. Countries interested in specific area who come together to make agreements that are more substantively deep than a broad agreement by everyone- increased specificity and agreement is a good thing o. Often easier to achieve agreement with smaller group of like-minded countries on smaller topic areas o. Multiple agreements create overlap, which makes coordination of igos more difficult and can create competition. Unfccc (un framework convention on climate change) o o o o. Nested regime- institution itself, plus intstitutions within it. Sector specific approaches- whole series of regimes o o o o o. Montreal protocol under ozone convention- repurposd regime (very narrow subject) Reasons for regime overlap and fragmentation o o. Discussion of one topic leads to discussion of another, creating spill over.
