1. For the theory of justification, see Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, La Justification. Essai sur les économies de la grandeur, Paris, Gallimard, 1991.
2. Ernst Haas, When Knowledge Is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1990.
3. Regarding this approach see Javier Santiso: “Diffusion of Ideas and International Relations,” in Marie-Claude Smouts (ed.), The New International Relations: Theory and Practice, London, Hurst and Co., 1998, pp. 126–132. (orig. French edition: Les nouvelles relations internationals, Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1998.)
4. See Ch. Barthod, “La Conférence des Nations Unies sur l’Environnement et le Développement,” Revue forestière française, 45 (1), 1993, pp. 7–23, as well as EUROFOR, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 818 ff.
5. For a detailed study of the workings of the ITTO, see Fred P. Gale, The Tropical Timber Trade Regime, London, Macmillan Press, 1998.