1. Framework Convention for TobaccoControl (FCTC): Non-governmental Actors and International TobaccoControl Regime.
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Mamudu, Hadii M.
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TOBACCO , *GOVERNMENT policy , *INTERNATIONAL trade , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *TOBACCO use , *SMOKING - Abstract
Scholars of international relations have examined systemic influences on domestic politics and the need to bridge the gap between international relations and comparative politics (Coleman and Perl 1999; Keck and Sikkink 1998; Caporaso 1997; Putnam 1988; Gourevitch 1978; Keohane and Nye 1977). One of the systemic influences on states? behavior is the establishment of regimes (Haggard and Simmons 1987; Krasner, 1983; Young 1983; Haas 1980). In the early 1960s, two major reports ? the 1962 report of the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom and the 1964 Surgeon General?s report in the United States ? about the hazard of cigarette smoking had dramatic impact on domestic politics of the US and countries of the Commonwealth. Tobacco control has gradually bubbled up as international concern and on May 21, 2003, a convention known as the FCTC was unanimously adopted among 192 countries, bringing into being an international tobacco control regime. Adopting a neo-liberal ? constructivist perspective, this paper seeks to examine the evolution of the FCTC between 1993 and 2003 using event history and document analyses. The paper aims to explore two main issues: (1) what accounted for the emergence of the tobacco control regime? (2) What role(s) did non-governmental actors play in the emergence of the regime? Similar to Meyer et al. (1997), the paper finds the spread of norms and activities of non-governmental actors as critical in the emergence of the regime. These answers help us to better understand the contemporary global system and the behavior of states within them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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