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Our Generation's Sputnik Moment: Regulating Energy Innovation, Joseph P. Tomain
Our Generation's Sputnik Moment: Regulating Energy Innovation, Joseph P. Tomain
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama stressed the necessity of innovation as the key to unlocking our economic future. More pointedly, he stated that now is "our generation's Sputnik moment." Just as the United States responded to national security threats posed by a cold war Russia, today we must respond to threats to our economy and our environment, as well as to our national security, posed by an oil addiction that we have not been able to break for over half a century. The intertwined needs to provide sufficient energy, environmental protection, and a vibrant economy …
Global Public Goods, Governance Risk, And International Energy, Timothy L. Meyer
Global Public Goods, Governance Risk, And International Energy, Timothy L. Meyer
Scholarly Works
Scholars and commentators have long argued that issue linkages provide a way to increase cooperation on global public goods by increasing participation in global institutions, building consensus, and deterring free-riding. In this symposium article, I argue that the emphasis on the potential of issue linkages to facilitate cooperation in these ways has caused commentators to underestimate how common features of international legal institutions designed to accomplish these aims can actually undermine those institutions’ ability to facilitate cooperation. I focus on two features of institutional design that are intended to encourage participation in public goods institutions but can create the risk …
Global Public Goods, Governance Risk, And International Energy, Timothy Meyer
Global Public Goods, Governance Risk, And International Energy, Timothy Meyer
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Scholars and commentators have long argued that issue linkages provide a way to increase cooperation on global public goods by increasing participation in global institutions, building consensus, and deterring free-riding. In this symposium article, I argue that the emphasis on the potential of issue linkages to facilitate cooperation in these ways has caused commentators to underestimate how common features of international legal institutions designed to accomplish these aims can actually undermine those institutions’ ability to facilitate cooperation. I focus on two features of institutional design that are intended to encourage participation in public goods institutions but can create the risk …