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Informationen zum Autor Ulrich Brand is Professor of International Politics at Vienna University, Austria. Christoph Görg is a Senior Researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Leipzig, Germany. Joachim Hirsch is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Frankfurt, Germany. Markus Wissen is Assistant Professor of the Institute for Political Science at Vienna University, Austria. Klappentext Examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through international treaties; assessing how the discourse and politics of sustainable development have contributed to the internationalization of the state. Zusammenfassung Examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through international treaties; assessing how the discourse and politics of sustainable development have contributed to the internationalization of the state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Genetic Resources and the Internationalisation of the State 1. The Regulation of Nature in Post-Fordism 2. On the Value of Nature: The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Commercialisation of Genetic Resources 3. Limits to Commercialisation?: Genetic Resources in Agriculture and the Conflict over a Multilateral Exchange System 4. Politicising Intellectual Property Rights: The Conflicts around the TRIPS Agreement and the World Intellectual Property Organisation 5. The Relevance of the National and the Local: The Disputes over a Valorization Paradigm in Mexico and Chiapas 6. Contested Terrains: Towards a Neo-Poulantzian Approach to International Political Economy
