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PublicationVarieties of Differential Treatment in World Politics: A Historical Look at International Health and Environmental Governance( 2019-02-15)Weinhardt, ClaraThe paper shows that both in environmental and in international health governance differential treatment norms can be identified. Moreover, in both issue areas differential treatment norms have become more pervasive and more fine grained over time. The evolution of differential treatment norms can be linked to world political transformations across both issue areas although it has to be noted that environmental governance consolidated only in the 1970s as a distinct issue area. Nevertheless, there are also important differences between the two issue areas regarding the categories of differential treatment that can be found in each of them and regarding the degree to which the norms are explicitly stated and legally codified.Type: conference paper
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PublicationThe unmaking of special rights: differential treatment of developing countries in times of global power shifts(Edward Elgar, 2024-02-09)
;Clara Weinhardt ;Till SchöferIn light of recent significant changes to the global order, The Unmaking of Special Rights explores an often-forgotten aspect of these power shifts: special rights for developing countries. Written by a group of esteemed experts, it analyzes when and how special rights for developing countries have evolved in the context of global power shifts. This informative book outlines how, since decolonization, several global regimes have granted ‘disadvantaged’ members exemptions, yet the rise of Brazil, India, China, and other countries has led to pressure to adjust these rights to new economic realities. Based on case studies in global trade, climate, and health governance, this groundbreaking book comparatively assesses the evolution of differential treatment across global governance, highlighting how treating all developing countries as a single group has gradually been replaced with a more nuanced approach. Chapters cover differentiated responsibilities in the climate regime, capacity, willingness and need in the health regime, and special and differential treatment in the World Trade Organization (WTO). For academics, researchers and students specializing in international economics, law and politics, international political economy, and public policy, this book will be a vital read. Providing in-depth comparative case studies, it will also be of interest to practitioners and policymakers working in international development organizations. -
PublicationRethinking climate responsibility : from theory to measurement to practiceThis PhD thesis sets out to rethink climate responsibility in line with a new Economic Activity Principle. The Economic Activity Principle holds that agents should be viewed as climate responsible for and in proportion to their economic emissions that are A) inconsistent with a sustainability threshold, B) emitted above an economic capability threshold, and C) emitted after a knowledge threshold. The sustainability threshold follows from the Paris Agreements temperature limits which aim to prevent dangerous climate change. The economic capability threshold aims to protect the goals of equity and development. And the knowledge threshold ensures that once there is agreement on sufficient knowledge, ignorance can no longer serve as justification for evading climate responsibility. The Economic Activity Principle is designed here such that the resulting climate responsibility concept derives from and serves the central goals of effectiveness and equity in the international climate governance regime. I identify the national level of agency as the appropriate level for bearing climate responsibility as nations are the only agents capable of simultaneously fulfilling all climate responsibility requirements developed and defended here. Overall, the thesis provides a normatively defensible, practically useful, and empirically measurable concept of climate responsibility. Its results show that current ways of thinking about climate responsibility based on countries territorial emissions misrepresent climate responsibility by placing undue burdens on poorer and predominantly export-oriented countries.Type: doctoral thesis