Series foreword -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. A framework for analysis -- 2. How compliance happens and doesn't happen domestically -- 3. Managing compliance: A comparative perspective -- 4. Contingent knowledge: Implications for implementation and compliance -- 5. The five international treaties: A living history -- 6. The United States: Taking environmental treaties seriously -- 7. The European Union and compliance: A story in the making -- 8. Japan: Consensus-based compliance -- 9. The Soviet Union and the Russian federation: A natural experiment in environmental compliance -- 10. Hungary: Political interest, bureaucratic will -- 11. China: Implementation under economic growth and market reform -- 12. India: Embedded capacities -- 13. Cameroon's environmental accords: Signed, sealed, but undelivered -- 14. Brazil: Regional inequalities and ecological diversity in a federal system -- 15. Assessing the record and designing strategies to engage countries -- References -- Index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-589) and index
