An Introduction to Adaptive Governance: Why International Law Knows More Than It Can Change
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- Asif Khan · Aftab Haider · Salman Shahzad
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- 2026
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Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology · Southwest University of Political Science & Law · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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International law has never been short of flexibility. What it lacks is the capacity to revise its rules in response to what it learns. This chapter introduces the volume by joining two bodies of thought that grew up apart: the adaptive governance tradition, which runs from Holling's ecology to recent work on law and resilience, and international law's own older debate on peaceful change, treaty revision and consent. It distinguishes three registers in which international law changes (exception, interpretation and revision) and proposes a closed-loop test with three conditions: notice, authority and reach. Reading the revision clauses of the ozone, climate, trade and health regimes against that test, it argues that blocked revision does not prevent change but displaces it towards exceptions, courts and clubs, at a cost in legitimacy that falls unevenly on the Global South.
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- 10.4018/979-8-2600-0858-4.ch001
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Asif Khan; Aftab Haider; Salman Shahzad. An Introduction to Adaptive Governance: Why International Law Knows More Than It Can Change. 2026. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-2600-0858-4.ch001
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- Asif Khan; Aftab Haider; Salman Shahzad. (2026). An Introduction to Adaptive Governance: Why International Law Knows More Than It Can Change. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-2600-0858-4.ch001
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