Assessing Treaty Performance in China: Trade and Human Rights
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Closer and more frequent contact among states brought about by globalization has led to an increase in trade and human rights disputes that can challenge economic relations and cloud political relationships. Preventing and managing these disputes requires a better understanding of the cross-cultural dimensions of treaty performance on trade and human rights, especially for increasingly important actors in the international system such as China.
Assessing Treaty Performance in China outlines a new approach for understanding China's treaty performance around international standards on trade and human rights, using the paradigms of selective adaptation and institutional capacity. Selective adaptation reveals how local interpretation and implementation of international treaty standards are affected by normative perspectives derived from perception, complementarity, and legitimacy. Institutional capacity explains how operational dimensions of legal performance are affected by structural and relational dynamics of institutional purpose, location, orientation, and cohesion.
The book focuses on legal performance rather than technical compliance to provide a more comprehensive perspective on China’s interaction with international treaty standards. It also offers policy suggestions for more effective engagement with China on trade and human rights issues.
This will be useful for scholars, policy makers, and private sector actors engaged with China.
[UBC Press | Assessing Treaty Performance in China - Trade and Human Rights, By Pitman B. Potter]
ISBN
9780774825597, 9780774825603, 9780774825610
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
City
Vancouver
Keywords
Asian Studies, China Studies, Human Rights Law, International Law, International Politics, Law, Political Science
