Omar Ramon Serrano Oswald
Biographic Data
| ID | 4405359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omar Ramon Serrano Oswald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omar Ramon Serrano |
| FAMILY NAME | Oswald |
| SIGNATURE | OSWALD O R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technical University of Munich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7396-7891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Persistence Against the Odds
Since its inception in 1966, the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) has prevailed in the face of significant existential challenges. Against this backdrop, we investigate how and why the JIU persisted over time. Combining delegation and historical institutionalist approaches, we posit that entrepreneurial agents and layering processes together help us better understand persistence of international organizations. Based on semi‐structured i…
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies
Following decades of relative isolation, China and India have become the world’s largest new traders. In this paper, we focus on their Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). While the two economies initially followed similar paths, with a growing number of PTAs signed in the first decade of the 21st Century, since 2011 India has taken a U-turn and stopped completing them. China, on the other hand, has widened and deepened its trade agreements. We …
When Do International Organizations Engage in Agency Slack? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of United Nations Institutions
The extensive delegation of power to international organizations (IOs) has been accompanied by occasional agency slack. While prior studies suggest that IOs’ propensity for agency slack may be rooted in their organizational characteristics, this has rarely been explored empirically. To address this lacuna, in this article we propose a conceptualization and measurement of agency slack and develop a framework of organizational characteristics. Our …
Más de 32 años después de la masacre de la UCA
En más de tres décadas en las que no ha sido posible juzgar a los autores intelectuales de la masacre de la UCA, hay dos cosas que no han variado: la impunidad de la que han gozado los autores mediatos de la masacre y la tenacidad de la UCA y de la Compañía de Jesús para que en El Salvador se conozca la verdad y se haga justicia. ¿Cuál ha sido la lógica de actuación de quienes han obstaculizado la justicia? ¿Qué ha hecho posible la impunidad? La …
India, Brazil, and public health
This article analyzes the domestic drivers of regulatory state formation in India and Brazil and its consequences for the global rules governing pharmaceutical patents. We first analyze Indian and Brazilian politics of regulatory state formation; then, in light of the extent to which the two countries have built regulatory capacity and capability in the field of patent regulation, we explore whether and how they have been able to influence the ex…
Power transitions and the rise of the regulatory state
This special issue examines the consequences of the ongoing power transition in the world economy for global regulatory regimes, especially the variation in rising powers' transition from rule‐takers to rule‐makers in global markets. This introductory article presents the analytical framework for better understanding those consequences, the Power Transition Theory of Global Economic Governance (PTT‐GEG), which extends the scope of traditional pow…
Teaming Up? China, India and Brazil and the Issue of Benefit-Sharing from Genetic Resource Use
This article focuses on an area that has not been systematically addressed but is of crucial importance to China, India and Brazil: the global governance of genetic resources. All three are biodiversity-rich and, ever since biotechnology promised to turn DNA into gold, have been significant players in the genetic-resources regime complex. Shortcomings notwithstanding, the establishment of a new access and benefit-sharing regime constitutes a rare…
Rising Economies in the International Patent Regime
Rising economies face a crucial dilemma when establishing their position on international patent law. Should they translate their increasing economic strength into political power to further developing countries’ interests in lower levels of international patent protection? Or, anticipating a rising domestic interest in stronger international patent protection, should they adopt a position that favours maximal patent protection? Drawing on multip…
China and India's insertion in the intellectual property rights regime
This paper looks at the insertion of China and India in the contested and highly legalised regime of intellectual property rights (IP). In doing so it pays particular attention at two dimensions, the internal adoption of this regime and external endorsement/contestation of international IP norms. Much has been written about whether emerging countries will challenge or support the maintenance of an open rules-based multilateral trade system. In th…
Promoting Democracy as a Security Goal. The ‘inward-outward’ Paradox of the EU’s Foreign Policy
Power transitions and the rise of the regulatory state
This special issue examines the consequences of the ongoing power transition in the world economy for global regulatory regimes, especially the variation in rising powers' transition from rule‐takers to rule‐makers in global markets. This introductory article presents the analytical framework for better understanding those consequences, the Power Transition Theory of Global Economic Governance (PTT‐GEG), which extends the scope of traditional pow…
When Do International Organizations Engage in Agency Slack? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of United Nations Institutions
The extensive delegation of power to international organizations (IOs) has been accompanied by occasional agency slack. While prior studies suggest that IOs’ propensity for agency slack may be rooted in their organizational characteristics, this has rarely been explored empirically. To address this lacuna, in this article we propose a conceptualization and measurement of agency slack and develop a framework of organizational characteristics. Our …
China and India's insertion in the intellectual property rights regime
This paper looks at the insertion of China and India in the contested and highly legalised regime of intellectual property rights (IP). In doing so it pays particular attention at two dimensions, the internal adoption of this regime and external endorsement/contestation of international IP norms. Much has been written about whether emerging countries will challenge or support the maintenance of an open rules-based multilateral trade system. In th…
India, Brazil, and public health
This article analyzes the domestic drivers of regulatory state formation in India and Brazil and its consequences for the global rules governing pharmaceutical patents. We first analyze Indian and Brazilian politics of regulatory state formation; then, in light of the extent to which the two countries have built regulatory capacity and capability in the field of patent regulation, we explore whether and how they have been able to influence the ex…
Teaming Up? China, India and Brazil and the Issue of Benefit-Sharing from Genetic Resource Use
This article focuses on an area that has not been systematically addressed but is of crucial importance to China, India and Brazil: the global governance of genetic resources. All three are biodiversity-rich and, ever since biotechnology promised to turn DNA into gold, have been significant players in the genetic-resources regime complex. Shortcomings notwithstanding, the establishment of a new access and benefit-sharing regime constitutes a rare…
Rising Economies in the International Patent Regime
Rising economies face a crucial dilemma when establishing their position on international patent law. Should they translate their increasing economic strength into political power to further developing countries’ interests in lower levels of international patent protection? Or, anticipating a rising domestic interest in stronger international patent protection, should they adopt a position that favours maximal patent protection? Drawing on multip…
Promoting Democracy as a Security Goal. The ‘inward-outward’ Paradox of the EU’s Foreign Policy
China and India's insertion in the intellectual property rights regime
This paper looks at the insertion of China and India in the contested and highly legalised regime of intellectual property rights (IP). In doing so it pays particular attention at two dimensions, the internal adoption of this regime and external endorsement/contestation of international IP norms. Much has been written about whether emerging countries will challenge or support the maintenance of an open rules-based multilateral trade system. In th…
Rising Economies in the International Patent Regime
Rising economies face a crucial dilemma when establishing their position on international patent law. Should they translate their increasing economic strength into political power to further developing countries’ interests in lower levels of international patent protection? Or, anticipating a rising domestic interest in stronger international patent protection, should they adopt a position that favours maximal patent protection? Drawing on multip…
Teaming Up? China, India and Brazil and the Issue of Benefit-Sharing from Genetic Resource Use
This article focuses on an area that has not been systematically addressed but is of crucial importance to China, India and Brazil: the global governance of genetic resources. All three are biodiversity-rich and, ever since biotechnology promised to turn DNA into gold, have been significant players in the genetic-resources regime complex. Shortcomings notwithstanding, the establishment of a new access and benefit-sharing regime constitutes a rare…
India, Brazil, and public health
This article analyzes the domestic drivers of regulatory state formation in India and Brazil and its consequences for the global rules governing pharmaceutical patents. We first analyze Indian and Brazilian politics of regulatory state formation; then, in light of the extent to which the two countries have built regulatory capacity and capability in the field of patent regulation, we explore whether and how they have been able to influence the ex…
Power transitions and the rise of the regulatory state
This special issue examines the consequences of the ongoing power transition in the world economy for global regulatory regimes, especially the variation in rising powers' transition from rule‐takers to rule‐makers in global markets. This introductory article presents the analytical framework for better understanding those consequences, the Power Transition Theory of Global Economic Governance (PTT‐GEG), which extends the scope of traditional pow…
Persistence Against the Odds
Since its inception in 1966, the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) has prevailed in the face of significant existential challenges. Against this backdrop, we investigate how and why the JIU persisted over time. Combining delegation and historical institutionalist approaches, we posit that entrepreneurial agents and layering processes together help us better understand persistence of international organizations. Based on semi‐structured i…
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies
Following decades of relative isolation, China and India have become the world’s largest new traders. In this paper, we focus on their Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). While the two economies initially followed similar paths, with a growing number of PTAs signed in the first decade of the 21st Century, since 2011 India has taken a U-turn and stopped completing them. China, on the other hand, has widened and deepened its trade agreements. We …
When Do International Organizations Engage in Agency Slack? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of United Nations Institutions
The extensive delegation of power to international organizations (IOs) has been accompanied by occasional agency slack. While prior studies suggest that IOs’ propensity for agency slack may be rooted in their organizational characteristics, this has rarely been explored empirically. To address this lacuna, in this article we propose a conceptualization and measurement of agency slack and develop a framework of organizational characteristics. Our …
Más de 32 años después de la masacre de la UCA
En más de tres décadas en las que no ha sido posible juzgar a los autores intelectuales de la masacre de la UCA, hay dos cosas que no han variado: la impunidad de la que han gozado los autores mediatos de la masacre y la tenacidad de la UCA y de la Compañía de Jesús para que en El Salvador se conozca la verdad y se haga justicia. ¿Cuál ha sido la lógica de actuación de quienes han obstaculizado la justicia? ¿Qué ha hecho posible la impunidad? La …
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works) · International trade (4 works) · Business (3 works) · China (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works)