Hi Folks, Thanks for the quick responses. There's plenty of info to choose from, but if anyone has anything peer reviewed on the role of sovereignty in the formation of CMS and/or AEWA, we're still looking. In the meantime, see below for the compiled responses.
best, dgwebster Hi DG, Earth Negotiations Bulletin covers CMS negotiations, so that would be one place to start. Coverage of the most recent COP can be found at: http://enb.iisd.org/cms/cop12/ Katie hi dg, google scholar appears to have more on “African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement” than with “Waterbirds” but it does show some of both . . . cheers, craig sorry, pushed the button too quickly . . . 40 of those citations on google scholar include on of the forms of aewa and “international relations” . . . cheers, craig Hi DG, This is less about regime creation and more about how NGOs might flll in governance gaps in international regimes, but Margi Prideaux's 2015 article in Global Policy might be of interest. A bit prescriptive, but still based on some helpful analytic questions and approaches: "wildlife related MEAs including the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) are a low order political priority and government budgets for these environment issues are stretched. Many governments lack even basic implementation budgets, let alone capacity for progressive work. MEA secretariats are funded so minimally that there is insufficient facility to really progress implementation. A recent review of wildlife related NGOs associated with the work of the CMS family has found that NGOs will commit to increase implementation efforts if the right dynamic is created. Moving beyond the impression of ‘contested ground’ to a ‘collaborative governance’ future, where all participants are invested in policy, discourse, negotiation and arbitration could increase human and financial resource and in turn increase implementation for the CMS family" This report from NatureKenya, by Ng’weno and colleagues )"Kenya and the AWEA"), is not an academic analysis, but might offer some interesting insights into NGO pressure/participation in government decisions around ratifying AEWA in Kenya. Depending on how analytically advanced your student is, they might be able to pull out some of the sovereignty themes in these ratification calls and keynote speaker interventions. Gray's 2003 analysis of implementation and compliance is a general article, but perhaps useful in categorizing challenges at the legal/state level with implementation of MEAs. It could be helpful as it contrasts different conventions, which might be especially helpful to a student thinking about comparative work and MEA patterns--this would again require some ability to extrapolate, but could be useful if there is a gap in the specific analysis of sovereignty and AEWA. I haven't read this book, so don't know how useful it'll be, but this could be in line with your student's interests: Robert Boardman, 2006. *The International Politics of Bird Conservation: Biodiversity, Regionalism and Global Governance, *Edward Elgar Publishing. The other two -- Adam on the role of AWEA in meeting global biodiversity targets, and Baldwin on 25 years of lessons from AEWA -- might not quite be on the creation of the agreement, but do seem to highlight some useful sovereignty and global governance themes: the trade-offs of treaty ambition and treaty participation; the role of bilateral agreements within conventions as a tool/mechanism to safeguard sovereignty and national circumstances while still providing a framework for cooperation; the regional politics of flyways (might be usefully paired with Balsiger and VanDeveer's *GEP* piece on navigating regional politics); species vs. habitat conservation choices; the ability of non-CMS parties to sign MOUs under CMS and participate in AEWA without ratification of the umbrella agreement; etc. Cheers, Kate Natalia knows AEWA inside out and can be of help. We have analyzed the implementation of the agreement and have data for all member states who have reported. Depending on what your student wants to do, Natalia can assist. Some basic factual information may be available on IEADB: For AEWA https://iea.uoregon.edu/base-agreement-list?combine= African-Eurasian+Migratory&field_inclusion_value=All&sig_ year%5Bmin%5D=&sig_year%5Bmax%5D=&mitch_id=&field_lineage_ value=Conservation+Migratory+Species For CMS: https://iea.uoregon.edu/base-agreement-list?combine=&field_ inclusion_value=All&sig_year%5Bmin%5D=&sig_year%5Bmax%5D=& mitch_id=&field_lineage_value=Conservation+Migratory+Species Some articles https://iea.uoregon.edu/articles?title=Conservation%20Migratory%20Species and of course the secretariat at: http://www.unep-aewa.org/ Hi DG, I would recommend contacting the AEWA Secretariat directly to see what documentation they can provide. There should be primary documentation (meeting reports, country interventions, etc.) available on the AEWA website, but the Secretariat may have additional information available. They may also be able to help identify individuals who were involved for interviews. Kind regards, Wendy Dear DG: We have been covering AEWA meetings since 2008. Perhaps the ENBs can help: http://enb.iisd.org/vol18/ Pam On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 1:28 PM, DG Webster <d.g.webs...@dartmouth.edu> wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got another student who could use some help finding information on a > regime that she's studying. We've tried a lot of different combinations in > the search engines but aren't finding much that really addresses the IR > side of things. She's looking at the Convention on Migratory species, with > a focus on the African-Eurasian Waterbirds Agreement. She's especially > interested in the role that sovereignty played in the regime creation > stages and then in strengthening through AEWA. Any suggestions that you all > have would be most welcome. > > Thanks much, > dgwebster > > -- > D.G. 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