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How can strategic treaty management complement legal compliance mechanisms to drive more effective and responsive treaties within global governance networks?
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Strategies for advancing multilateral treaties; 3. Strategic approaches to national implementation; 4. Financing multilateral treaties; 5. Synergies and partnerships; 6. Science, technology, and data; 7. Performance management; 8. Conclusion; Annex A. Table of treaty strategies; Annex B. Interviews conducted.
About the author
Thomas F. McInerney is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. He counsels multilateral organizations, treaty secretariats, international NGOs and governments on treaty management, international law and development. He is the founder of the Treaty Effectiveness Initiative, which provides research, publications, training and policy advice to improve the performance of multilateral treaties and international organizations. He is also a Visiting Fellow with the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at Australian National University. His writing and speeches concern international law, global governance, regulation and international development.
Summary
This is the first book to examine the dynamic application of strategic management to multilateral treaties to help solve major global problems. Relevant to lawyers, treaty bodies, international organizations, government officials, NGOs, and donors, it applies interdisciplinary perspectives to analyze an emerging discipline comprising strategy formulation, execution, and evaluation.
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"Treaties have proliferated to affect many different domestic regulatory domains. Yet at the same time there is cynicism about treaties. States, in the eyes of many, will renege on their treaty obligations if it is in their interests to do so. In this highly innovative book Thomas F. McInerney identifies and analyses practices of what he terms 'strategic treaty management'. Understanding these practices is central to helping state and non-state actors realize the promise of treaties they have negotiated. Written with great clarity and drawing together different disciplinary contributions, this book provides scholars and practitioners with a deep understanding of the operational life of treaties."
Peter Drahos, Australian National University, Melbourne
