The current study addresses several concerns regarding World Heritage Sites (WHSs) in
developing countries. Using a novel super-efficiency parallel framework, this research firstly …

Why have deliberations over World Heritage sites become such a volatile arena for the
performance of international tensions, new political alliances and challenges to global …

The purpose of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention is to protect the global merit good
of cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value for humanity. Many observers …

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international
treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely coveted mark of distinction …

This article analyzes whether emerging nations are extending their influence across the
UNESCO World Heritage Committee and, if so, how this affects decision-making processes …

UNESCO World Heritage regions are historically constructed categories that do not easily
map onto global geographies, yet they still continue to have important political and ethical …

Through much of its history, Italy was Europe's heart of the arts, an artistic playground for
foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and sometimes plundered countless artworks …

This article provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the composition, development
and use of the List of World Heritage in Danger (IDL) under the 1972 Convention concerning …

This paper examines the modes of persuasion deployed throughout the decision-making
processes of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Through long-term ethnographic …

Abstract The 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was
adopted by UNESCO to enshrine and preserve exemplars of the intangible heritage of …