When Experts and Diplomats Agree: Negotiating Peer Review of the UN Convention Against Corruption

The UN Convention Against Corruption is the only truly global convention in corruption control. Separate and rather difficult negotiations were conducted on a mechanism for the implementation of the treaty. These negotiations broke ground by providing, for the first time, peer review of a United Nations treaty. This article, which is based on the authors' close observations and interviews with key participants, seeks to show how the dynamics between technical experts and diplomats led to a resolution that would not have occurred if either the technical experts or the diplomats had acted alone

When Experts and Diplomats Agree: Negotiating Peer Review of the UN Convention Against Corruption

Global Governance, vol. 18, no. 4. Copyright © 2012 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher.The UN Convention Against Corruption is the only truly global convention in corruption control. Separate and rather difficult negotiations were con­ducted on a mechanism for the implementation of the treaty. These ne­gotiations broke ground by providing, for the first time, peer review of a United Nations treaty. This article, which is based on the authors' close ob­servations and interviews with key participants, seeks to show how the dy­namics between technical experts and diplomats led to a resolution that would not have occurred if either the technical experts or the diplomats had acted alone. KEYWORDS: corruption, peer review, United Nations, ne­gotiation impasse, experts, diplomats

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