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

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Routledge, 2014 M04 8 - 368 pages
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.

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Contents

1 Introduction
3
2 Theory of G7 Summit Compliance
17
3 Compliance with G7 Climate Change Commitments
37
4 Compliance with G7 Biological Diversity Commitments
115
5 Compliance with G7 Developing Country Debt Commitments
153
The Case of Russia
203
7 Summary and Conclusions
267
Tables and Figures
291
References
319
Index
341
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Eleonore Kokotsis

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