Who gets what? : domestic influences on international negotiations allocating shared resources / Aslaug Asgeirsdottir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ásgeirsdóttir, Áslaug, 1966-

Series:

SUNY series in global politics.

SUNY series in global politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mediation, International.

Resource allocation.

Law of the sea.

Fish populations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During international bargaining, who gets the better deal, and why, is one of the questions at the heart of the study of international cooperation. In Who Gets What? Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir analyzes seven agreements signed throughout a twenty-year span between Iceland and Norway to allocate shared fish stocks. While the Law of the Sea regime provides specific solution concepts for negotiators, it does not dictate the final outcome. Looking at the actual negotiation process and the political and economic constraints negotiators operate under, Ásgeirsdóttir examines how domestic interest groups can directly influence the negotiating process, and thus affect international agreements over scarce resources. Who Gets What? demonstrates empirically that a nation with more domestic constraints on its negotiators gets a better deal.

Contents:

Explaining distributional outcomes

Role of the law of the sea and the straddling stocks agreement in determining distributive outcomes

The decline of Norwegian fishing interests

Dictating policy and influencing outcomes in Iceland

Interest-group power and its impact on the international allocation of shared fish stocks

Conclusions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-166) and index.

ISBN:

9780791477816

0791477819

9781435666931

1435666933

OCLC:

257034598