The role of international bodies (and insurance companies) in more or less forcing tanker changes is told in Michael M'Gonigle and Mark W. Zacher, Pollution, Politics, and International Law: Tankers at Sea<http://www.amazon.ca/Pollution-Politics-International-Law-Tankers/dp/0520045130/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1301515278&sr=8-23> and Ron Mitchell's more recent book Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance<http://www.amazon.ca/Intentional-Oil-Pollution-Sea-Environmental/dp/0262133032/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1301515422&sr=8-6>
Don Munton ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Peter Haas [[email protected]] Sent: March 30, 2011 12:38 PM To: GEP-ED Subject: [gep-ed] double hulled tankers Today I was lecturing on the mixed nature of US leadership in international environmental law, and used the example of how unilateral decisions by the US led others to change their behaviors, such as with CITES, magnuson act, and double hulled tankers. But I realized I don't know the domestic story of what led to the US reversal on double hulled tankers. Can anyone illuminate me? Thanks Peter M. Haas Professor Department of Political Science 216 Thompson Hall UMASS - Amherst
