Die Lösung globaler Probleme, wie sie durch die allgegenwärtige Verwendung von Chemikalien entstehen, liegt außerhalb der Möglichkeiten des einzelnen Staates. Gleichzeit verhindert die Schwerfälligkeit des Völkerrechts, trotz Modernisierungstendenzen, effektive Lösungen, die zudem...

This contribution examines the mechanisms for inducing compliance with international norms and rules as one major form of institutional effects. More specifically, it tackles the process from norm recognition to norm compliance. Two social logics of institutional impact are distinguished. They...

Rational choice approaches to customary international law have gained in prominence in recent years. Although becoming increasingly sophisticated, they are not able to explain all phenomena of customary international law. This contribution claims that there are two different types of unwritten...

Despite large uncertainties in the fertilization efficiency, natural iron fertilization studies and some of the purposeful iron enrichment studies have demonstrated that Southern Ocean iron fertilization can lead to a significant export of carbon from the sea surface to the ocean interior. From...