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Commitment and Compliance: The Role of Non-Binding Norms in the International Legal System. Edited by Dinah Shelton. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 556. Index. $99; £60.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2017

Douglas M. Johnston
Douglas M. Johnston*
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Faculty of Law (Emeritus) University of Victoria, Canada
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 95 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 709 - 714
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5 One of the firstborn of this family of “developmental” treaties was the 1976 Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution, opened for signature Feb. 16, 1976, 15 ILM 290 (1976). A more recent and more famous example is the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, May 9, 1992, S. Treaty Doc. No. 102-38 (1992), reprinted in 31 ILM 849 (1992).

6 Compare, for example, the recent Food and Agricultural Organization’s 1995 Code of Conduct on Responsible Fisheries, at <http://www.fao.org/fi/default.asp>, and the emerging code of conduct between the Association of South East Asian Nations and China on the preservation of peaceful relations in the South China Sea—which represents the latest stage of “confidence-building” diplomacy over the contested Spratly Islands.

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8 For an argument supporting three distinct models of international law—-juridical, operational, and societal— see Douglas, M. Johnston, Consent and Commitment in the World Community 81–95 (1997)Google Scholar.

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11 This last observation reflects the present debate, chiefly in the international relations literature, on the feasibility of efforts to qualify the concept of state sovereignty in the interest of world community development. This debate touches upon the attainability of such goals as “universal international law” through evolution of “world arena commitments,” as distinct from formal acts of state consent. For new thinking about the concept of state sovereignty, see Special issue, Continuity and Change in the Westphalian Order, Int’l Stud. Rev., Summer 2000, at 1.

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14 23 FAO/CONF/RES 10/85 (Nov. 28, 1985).

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16 Available online at <http://irptc.unep.ch/ethics/default.html>.

17 Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, Sept. 11, 1998, UN Doc. UNEP/FAO/PIC/CONF/2, reprinted in 38 ILM 1 (1999).

18 Antarctic Treaty, Dec. 1, 1959, 12 UST 794, 402 UNTS 71.

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