Institutional interplay : biosafety and trade / edited by Oran R. Young [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

International institutions and the consequences of their interplay are emerging as a major agenda item for research and policy. As governments enter into an ever-increasing number of international agreements, questions arise about the overlap of issues, jurisdiction and membership. Of particular interest to practitioners and analysts is how this mélange of institutions at the international level intersects and interrelates to influence and affect the content, operation, performance and effectiveness of a specific institution, as well as the functioning of the overall global governance context. Biosafety, an issue relevant to numerous institutions, offers a case study for exploring and applying interplay in practical terms.--Publisher's description.

Institutional interplay and the governance of biosafety / W. Bradnee Chambers, Joy A. Kim and Claudia ten Have -- Global biosafety governance : emergence and evolution / Aarti Gupta -- Analysing biosafety and trade through the lens of institutional interplay / Heike Schroeder -- Overlapping regimes : the SPS Agreement and the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol / Are K. Sydnes -- Disentangling the interaction between the Cartagena Protocol and the World Trade Organization / Sebastian Oberthür and Thomas Gehring -- Deriving insights from the case of the WTO and the Cartagena Protocol / Oran R. Young -- The WTO as an environmental agency / Steve Charnovitz -- Additional tributes to Konrad von Moltke.