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Strategic Posturing And The Political Economy Of Property Rights In The Biodiversity Convention, Kojo Yelpaala
Strategic Posturing And The Political Economy Of Property Rights In The Biodiversity Convention, Kojo Yelpaala
Kojo Yelpaala
Abstract
Certain patterns in history seem so stubbornly persistent as to resemble the laws of nature. One of these patterns with such enduring permanence is the role of scarcity in natural resources in the evolution of the political economy of the world and international law. It was scarcity in spices, silk, emeralds and other precious stones that inspired the evolution of exchange relations between Europe and the Far East through the famous Silk Routes. Interruptions to trade along the Silk Routes and the compounding effects of scarcity in other natural resources in Europe further inspired the age of discovery, imperialism …