Promotional Information

Post-Treaty Politics sheds much-needed light on the role that international secretariats play in shaping the preferences of the states involved in international environmental institutions and the relationships among those states. Jinnah's systematic and rigorous theoretical framework makes a major contribution to our understanding of when and how secretariats influence global environmental governance. -- Ronald B. Mitchell, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon; author of Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance Jinnah demonstrates -- in theory and in practice -- that treaty secretariats and the civil servants inhabiting them shape global politics. Her framework reveals that such influence varies across issues, organizations, and time, laying the foundations for many years of research and knowledge building. -- Stacy D. VanDeveer, Professor of Political Science, University of New Hampshire In this pioneering book, Sikina Jinnah adeptly explores the independent roles that treaty secretariats play in international relations. Her sophisticated analysis of how and when secretariats influence policy-making, and the ways in which this matters, is essential reading to anyone interested in bureaucratic politics, international organizations, and global environmental governance. -- Henrik Selin, The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

About the Author

Sikina Jinnah is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of the award-winning book Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance (MIT Press). Oran R. Young is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (MIT Press) and other books.

Reviews

Post-Treaty Politics by Sikina Jinnah is a wonderful new monograph about the nitty-gritty details of everyday life in global governance.—Review of International Organizations