INTL 4440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Soft Law, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade
25 Aug 2016
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1950s: monitoring difficult/impossible/unacceptable, open skies , us holds out, delay costlier for ussr. 1960s: partial test ban treaty, satellite technology, salt 1- serious negotiations ("69-"72, terms of agreement: abms prohibited, missiles limited (not warheads) Raise cost of no agreement (audience costs=public forum: if two governments have made negotiations about a trade agreement public and they do nothing, that may come at a domestic/political cost for each side. Cooperation possible without 3rd party enforcement if : repeated interaction (shadow of the future, information about behavior. But if cooperation is easy, bargaining will be hard. There is a tradeoff: attempts to address one make the other harder. Legalization varies across agreements: udhr vs. cat vs. echr. Legalization varies across issues: human rights vs. trade. Number of members: can affect depth , wto vs. nafta. Hard law may be preferable: obligation, precision, delegation. Hard laws make enforcement easier, but makes bargaining harder.
