Conflicts in Environmental Regulation and the Internationalisation of the State: Contested Terrains

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ISBN: 9780415455138 | 0415455138
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Copyright: 6/20/2008

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This book examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN, WTO and international treaties; assessing how the discourse and politics of sustainable development has transformed and contributed to the internationalization of the state.

List of abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: genetic resources and the internationalisation of the state	p. 1
The regulation of nature in post-Fordism	p. 9
Societal relationships-with nature	p. 10
The formation of a post-Fordist mode of regulation	p. 15
The knowledge-based economy and "knowledge society"	p. 18
Tendencies in the emergence of post-Fordist relationships with nature	p. 29
The transformation of the state and the system of states	p. 32
Questions of method	p. 50
On the value of nature: the Convention on Biological Diversity and the commercialisation of genetic resources	p. 53
Biodiversity as a political concept	p. 56
Functioning and provisions of the CBD	p. 60
Positions of the most important actors	p. 63
Problems and fields of conflict	p. 78
The Bonn Guidelines on Access and Benefit-sharing	p. 93
The emerging International Regime on Access and Benefit-sharing	p. 96
Summary: the importance of the CBD in the international process	p. 98
Limits to commercialisation? Genetic resources in agriculture and the conflict over a multilateral exchange system	p. 102
Structures of problem and conflicts	p. 105
The genesis of a multilateral exchange system	p. 116
Structural selectivities and the limits to the multilateral exchange system	p. 133
Politicising intellectual property rights: the conflicts around the TRIPS Agreement and the World Intellectual Property Organization	p. 137
Shaping an international regime of intellectual property protection: evolution and contradictions of the TRIPS Agreement	p. 137
Intellectual property rights and development: politicising the TRIPS Agreement	p. 143
Scale jumping: towards national and bilateral solutions of the IPR issue?	p. 147
Forum-shifting: imposing higher IPR standards through WIPO's Patent Agenda?	p. 150
Politicising a "technical" terrain: conflicts about intellectual property, genetic resources and development in the WIPO	p. 153
Contested terrains: summary and conclusions	p. 156
The relevance of the national and the local: the disputes over a valorisation paradigm in Mexico and Chiapas	p. 160
A megadiverse country in the process of transformation into a competition state	p. 161
The formation of a Mexican biodiversity policy	p. 180
Local conflicts over the valorisation paradigm in Chiapas	p. 195
Summary	p. 207
Contested terrains: towards a neo-Poulantzian approach to International Political Economy	p. 216
The material dimensions of globalisation and the importance of the local	p. 217
North-South relations and the reconfiguration of scale	p. 220
International institutions as condensations of power relations	p. 222
The question of democracy	p. 229
Notes	p. 234
Bibliography	p. 241
List of interviews	p. 264
Index	p. 266
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