Assessing Treaty Performance in China

Download or read book Assessing Treaty Performance in China written by Pitman B. Potter and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume outlines a new approach for understanding China's treaty performance around international standards on trade and human rights, using the paradigms of selective adaptation and institutional capacity. Selective adaptation reveals how local interpretation and implementation of international treaty standards are affected by normative perspectives derived from perception, complementarity, and legitimacy. Institutional capacity explains how operational dimensions of legal performance are affected by structural and relational dynamics of institutional purpose, location, orientation, and cohesion. The author also offers policy suggestions for more effective engagement with China on trade and human rights issues.