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Data and Analyses of Voting in the UN General Assembly 联合国大会投票的数据和分析
Pub Date : 2012-07-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2111149
E. Voeten
Roll-call voting in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has long attracted the attention of scholars; first to study the formation of voting blocs in the UNGA and more recently to create indicators for the common interests of states. This chapter discusses the data and the various choices scholars have to make when using these data for both these purposes. The chapter points out various common errors, such as confusing abstentions and absentee votes, and discusses appropriate methodologies for estimating state preferences from observed vote choices. I argue that studies that use UN voting data to measure common interests pay insufficient attention to the content of UN votes and show how ignoring (changes in) the UN’s agenda and dimensions of contestation can lead to serious biases. The chapter reviews characteristics of available data and gives a bird’s eye view of the history of UN voting.
联合国大会唱名表决一直受到学者们的关注。首先是研究联合国大会投票集团的形成,最近是建立各国共同利益的指标。本章讨论了数据和学者在使用这些数据时必须做出的各种选择。本章指出了各种常见的错误,如令人困惑的弃权和缺席投票,并讨论了从观察到的投票选择中估计各州偏好的适当方法。我认为,使用联合国投票数据来衡量共同利益的研究对联合国投票的内容关注不足,并表明忽视联合国议程和争论维度的(变化)可能导致严重的偏见。本章回顾了现有数据的特点,并对联合国投票的历史进行了概览。
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引用次数: 120
Vicarious Evaluation: How European Integration Changes National Identities 替代评价:欧洲一体化如何改变国家认同
Pub Date : 2012-07-02 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2155909
Philip Giurlando
This paper explores how European integration impacts the national identities of member states. Identity is an amorphous concept, and so this paper focuses on one dimension of it: the perception of relative status of the nation that nationalized individuals possess. Perceptions of relative national status flow from the fact that the international system is characterized with hierarchy, competition, and concerns for relative gains and losses. A key motivation for the foreign policies of lower status nations is equality with higher status ones, and for the former European integration is often perceived in equalizing terms. But this perception of Europe as equalizer often does not correspond with the objective unequal power relations in Europe. This paper focuses on why, among nationalized individuals, perceptions of power differentials change even though objectively the unequal inter-state power relations remain unchanged. The case study is Italy entering the European Monetary Union in 1999, which was perceived by many Italians in equalizing terms, even though the unequal power relations between Italy and Europe’s elite countries remained objectively unchanged.
本文探讨了欧洲一体化如何影响成员国的民族认同。身份是一个无定形的概念,因此本文关注的是它的一个维度:被民族化的个人对国家相对地位的感知。对国家相对地位的看法源于这样一个事实,即国际体系的特点是等级制度、竞争和对相对得失的关注。地位较低的国家外交政策的一个关键动机是与地位较高的国家平等,对于前欧洲一体化通常被认为是平等的。但这种将欧洲视为均衡器的看法往往与欧洲客观的不平等权力关系不符。本文关注的是,尽管客观上不平等的国家间权力关系保持不变,但在被国有化的个体中,对权力差异的看法发生了变化。以1999年意大利加入欧洲货币联盟为例,尽管意大利与欧洲精英国家之间的不平等权力关系客观上没有改变,但许多意大利人认为这是平等的。
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引用次数: 0
Paths to Eurobonds 通往欧洲债券之路
Pub Date : 2012-07-01 DOI: 10.5089/9781475505207.001.A001
S. Claessens, A. Mody, Shahin Vallée.
This paper discusses proposals for common euro area sovereign securities. Such instruments can potentially serve two functions: in the short-term, stabilize financial markets and banks and, in the medium-term, help improve the euro area economic governance framework through enhanced fiscal discipline and risk-sharing. Many questions remain on whether financial instruments can ever accomplish such goals without bold institutional and political decisions, and, whether, in the absence of such decisions, they can create new distortions. The proposals discussed are also not necessarily competing substitutes; rather, they can be complements to be sequenced along alternative paths that possibly culminate in a fully-fledged Eurobond. The specific path chosen by policymakers should allow for learning and secure the necessary evolution of institutional infrastructures and political safeguards.
本文讨论了欧元区共同主权证券的建议。这些工具可能具有两种功能:从短期来看,稳定金融市场和银行;从中期来看,通过加强财政纪律和风险分担,帮助改善欧元区经济治理框架。在没有大胆的制度和政治决策的情况下,金融工具是否能够实现这些目标,以及在没有这些决策的情况下,它们是否会造成新的扭曲,这些问题仍然存在。讨论的提案也不一定是相互竞争的替代品;相反,它们可以是互补的,沿着不同的路径进行排序,最终可能形成成熟的欧洲债券。决策者选择的具体道路应允许学习和确保体制基础设施和政治保障的必要演变。
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引用次数: 67
Private Regulation and Industrial Organisation: The Network Approach 私人管制与产业组织:网络方法
Pub Date : 2012-07-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2168729
F. Cafaggi, P. Iamiceli
The paper investigates the relation between private transnational regulation through standards and the formation of transnational networks. More particularly, focusing on standards compliance, the analysis is intended to test whether private regulation induces the existence of networks able to: (a) enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of compliance coordination in accordance with a “whole-chain supply approach” to safety regulation; (b) contribute to monitoring along the chain, even when this function is in different ways performed by other players (public authorities, independent certifiers, etc.); (c) possibly and eventually redistribute costs of compliance along the chain. Starting from the observation of contractual practices, mainly within supply chains subject to international certification schemes (for example in the case of food supply chains), different models of networks will be compared depending on: (i) the allocation of monitoring and sanctioning powers (these being assigned to producers, traders or independent actors); (ii) the means of monitoring (peer monitoring v. more formalised monitoring duties); (iii) the types of sanctions (particularly, label/certificate suspension or revocation); (iv) the structure of the network (as based on merely linked contracts or on a mix of contractual and organizational relations).
本文探讨了跨国规范与跨国网络形成之间的关系。更具体地说,侧重于标准遵守,分析旨在测试私人监管是否会导致能够:(a)根据安全监管的“全链供应方法”提高合规协调的效率和有效性的网络的存在;(b)促进整个链的监测,即使其他参与者(公共机构、独立认证机构等)以不同的方式履行这一职能;(c)可能并最终沿供应链重新分配合规成本。从观察合同做法开始,主要是在受国际认证计划约束的供应链内(例如食品供应链),将根据以下情况比较不同的网络模式:(i)监督和制裁权力的分配(这些权力分配给生产者、贸易商或独立行为者);(ii)监测手段(同侪监测与更正式的监测职责);(iii)制裁的种类(特别是标签/证书的暂停或撤销);(iv)网络的结构(仅基于链接合同或基于合同和组织关系的混合)。
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引用次数: 3
Carbon Capture and Storage in the CDM: Finding its Place Among Climate Mitigation Options? 清洁发展机制中的碳捕集与封存:在气候减缓方案中找到自己的位置?
Pub Date : 2012-05-30 DOI: 10.3233/CL-2012-056
Meinhard Doelle, Emily Lukaweski
The climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, concluded seven years of international negotiations on the role of carbon capture and storage in the Clean Development Mechanism. This article considers the resulting Durban CCS rules in light of the state of CCS technologies, their place among the range of climate mitigation options, and the resulting challenges, opportunities, and uncertainties surrounding the role of CCS. Eight principles that should guide the use of CCS in the CDM are proposed, and the Durban rules are assessed against them.
在南非德班举行的气候谈判结束了关于碳捕获和封存在清洁发展机制中的作用的长达七年的国际谈判。本文根据CCS技术的现状、它们在一系列气候减缓方案中的地位、以及围绕CCS作用的挑战、机遇和不确定性,考虑了由此产生的德班CCS规则。提出了在清洁发展机制中使用CCS的八项原则,并根据这些原则对德班规则进行了评估。
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引用次数: 4
Tracing the Limits of the Green Economy 追踪绿色经济的极限
Pub Date : 2012-05-14 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2058212
Rebecca M. Bratspies
This paper was presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law as part of a panel considering the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development. It critiques the "Green Economy," a theme of the Rio 20 Conference, by emphasizing the core indeterminancy of the concept. The paper points out some key definitional issues that must be resolved if the "Green Economy" is going to be more than a contentless slogan.
这篇论文作为2012年联合国可持续发展大会审议小组的一部分,在美国国际法学会第106届年会上发表。它通过强调“绿色经济”概念的核心不确定性,批评了“绿色经济”这一里约20会议的主题。本文指出,要使“绿色经济”不仅仅是一个空洞的口号,必须解决一些关键的定义问题。
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引用次数: 11
The Legal Validity of Anti-Offshoring Laws, Bills, and Policies in the United States and Other Countries 美国和其他国家反离岸外包法律、法案和政策的法律效力
Pub Date : 2012-04-17 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2041762
Amar Gupta, Deth Sao
The adoption of anti-offshoring legislation by federal governments can potentially violate the commitments made by such governments to the World Trade Organization and other bilateral and regional trade agreements. This motivates examination of the constitutionality and legality of governmental actions in the offshoring arena. The Obama administration has taken several steps to favor performance of tasks in the United States. Over 40 state governments in the US have considered anti-offshoring legislation, and some of these bills have been enacted by the respective legislatures. According to the US Constitution, the federal government possesses exclusive rights over the areas of interstate commerce, foreign affairs, and foreign trade in the US. All these constitutional principles are arguably violated when state governments approve anti-offshoring legislation. Some of the policy directives of the European Union (EU) and other countries also hamper the practice of offshoring. In particular, those relating to protection of privacy of personal data are discriminatory in nature and place foreign suppliers of services at a disadvantage compared to their domestic counterparts. The US and EU are major proponents of free trade; this is a two-way street, and comes with benefits and constraints. These issues are analyzed with respect to the current situation.
联邦政府通过反离岸立法可能会违反其对世界贸易组织(wto)和其他双边和区域贸易协定所作的承诺。这促使人们审视政府在离岸外包领域行为的合宪性和合法性。奥巴马政府已经采取了几项措施来支持在美国完成任务。美国有40多个州政府考虑过反离岸外包立法,其中一些法案已由各州立法机构通过。根据美国宪法,联邦政府在美国的州际商务、外交事务和对外贸易领域拥有专有权。当州政府批准反离岸立法时,所有这些宪法原则都可能被违反。欧洲联盟(欧盟)和其他国家的一些政策指示也阻碍了离岸外包的做法。特别是,与保护个人资料私隐有关的规定具有歧视性,使外国服务提供者与国内服务提供者相比处于不利地位。美国和欧盟是自由贸易的主要支持者;这是一条双向的道路,有好处也有限制。这些问题就目前的形势进行了分析。
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引用次数: 1
Rules vs. Targets: Climate Treaties Under Uncertainty 规则与目标:不确定的气候条约
Pub Date : 2012-04-13 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2039368
H. Gersbach, Quirin Oberpriller
We demonstrate the advantages of a climate treaty based solely on rules for international permit markets when there is uncertainty about abatement costs and environmental damages. Such a ‘Rules Treaty’ comprises a scaling factor and a refunding rule. Each signatory can freely choose the number of permits it allocates to domestic firms. For every permit so issued, an international agency is allowed to issue additional permits in accordance with the scaling factor. The agency auctions all additional permits and refunds all the revenues to the signatories according to the refunding rule. Our main finding is that for a sufficiently large scaling factor, the Rules Treaty approximates the globally optimal outcome in every state of the world. In this sense, newly arriving information is optimally processed. This is in stark contrast to treaties based on emission targets, even if countries fully comply with such targets. If countries are sufficiently homogeneous there exists, moreover, a refunding rule under which every country that abates more under the treaty than in the status quo ante can be compensated, so that all countries will participate voluntarily. If, however, countries are rather heterogeneous, some may decline to participate.
我们展示了在减排成本和环境损害存在不确定性的情况下,仅基于国际许可市场规则的气候条约的优势。这种“规则条约”包括比例因子和退款规则。每个签署国都可以自由选择分配给国内企业的许可数量。对于每一个这样颁发的许可证,一个国际机构被允许根据比例系数颁发额外的许可证。该机构拍卖所有额外的许可证,并根据退款规则将所有收入退还给签署国。我们的主要发现是,对于足够大的比例因子,《规则条约》接近世界上每个国家的全球最优结果。从这个意义上说,新到达的信息得到最佳处理。这与基于排放目标的条约形成鲜明对比,即使各国完全遵守了这些目标。此外,如果各国具有足够的同质性,则存在一项退款规则,根据该规则,每一个在条约下比在现状下减少更多的国家都可以得到补偿,以便所有国家都自愿参加。但是,如果各国相当不同,有些国家可能会拒绝参加。
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引用次数: 40
Is Ecuador That Wrong?: Analyzing the Ecuadorian Proposals Concerning the Special Rapporteurship on Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 厄瓜多尔错了吗?:分析厄瓜多尔关于美洲人权委员会言论自由问题特别报告员职位的建议
Pub Date : 2012-04-04 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2034375
Oswaldo R. Ruiz-Chiriboga
This article analyses the proposals made by Ecuador during the debates that were conducted in the Organization of American States regarding the functioning of the Special Rapporteurship on Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. The author concludes that, despite the political motivations Ecuador might have had, its proposals have some basis, since there is in fact an unexplained preferential treatment to the right to freedom of expression that might cause some unwanted consequences.
本文分析了厄瓜多尔在美洲国家组织就美洲人权委员会言论自由问题特别报告员的职能问题进行辩论时提出的建议。发件人的结论是,尽管厄瓜多尔可能有政治动机,但它的建议还是有一些根据的,因为事实上对言论自由权有一种无法解释的优惠待遇,这可能造成一些不想要的后果。
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引用次数: 2
Building a More Effective Global Climate Regime Bottom-Up 自下而上建立更有效的全球气候机制
Pub Date : 2012-03-27 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2162756
R. Stewart, M. Oppenheimer, B. Rudyk
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action holds out the promise of progress towards a climate treaty that includes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limitations commitments by all major emitting countries, including developing as well as developed countries. But as the UNFCCC process still faces significant obstacles, it needs to be supplemented, supported and furthered by concerted domestic and international efforts to build from the bottom up, a network of more limited and targeted regulatory and financial arrangements that would promote transnational cooperation, coordination and quantitative progress in reducing net GHG emissions. This paper focuses on specific transnational arrangements that are regulatory in character, involving standards, protocols, and other norms for products and production and process methods, for investments, financing, and trade, for generating and transmitting information, and other activities relevant to achieving GHG reductions. These transnational programs would focus to a considerable extent on achieving economic or environmental objectives other than climate protection, but in doing so would stimulate behavioral changes and instigate institutional arrangements that produce GHG reductions as a co-benefit. These regimes would involve not only major emitting countries but also firms, sub-national jurisdictions, civil society organizations (CSOs) and international organizations. These latter actors are not part of the UNFCCC process (other than as observers), but often already have significant economic and other non-climate incentives to undertake actions that will reduce GHG, or would readily respond to the deployment of such incentives. The strategy is to complement the universalist state-centered UNFCC process with a suite of concerted initiatives for regulatory and financial cooperation and coordination in specific fields involving non-state as well as state actors, focused on the most promising targets of opportunity for near-term emissions reductions.
《德班强化行动平台》有望达成一项气候条约,其中包括所有主要排放国(包括发展中国家和发达国家)对温室气体(GHG)排放的限制承诺。但是,由于《联合国气候变化框架公约》的进程仍然面临重大障碍,它需要得到国内和国际共同努力的补充、支持和进一步推动,自下而上地建立一个更有限、更有针对性的监管和金融安排网络,以促进跨国合作、协调和减少温室气体净排放的量化进展。本文侧重于具有监管性质的具体跨国安排,涉及产品、生产和加工方法、投资、融资和贸易、信息产生和传输以及与实现温室气体减排相关的其他活动的标准、协议和其他规范。这些跨国项目将在很大程度上侧重于实现经济或环境目标,而不是气候保护,但这样做会刺激行为改变,并促成制度安排,从而产生温室气体减排的共同利益。这些机制不仅包括主要排放国,还包括企业、次国家司法管辖区、民间社会组织(cso)和国际组织。后者不是UNFCCC进程的一部分(除了作为观察员之外),但通常已经有重大的经济和其他非气候激励措施来采取减少温室气体排放的行动,或者愿意响应此类激励措施的部署。该战略旨在补充以国家为中心的普遍主义《联合国气候变化框架公约》进程,在涉及非国家和国家行为体的具体领域开展一系列协调一致的监管和金融合作与协调倡议,重点关注近期减排最有希望的机会目标。
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