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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Young, Oran R

Titel

The politics of international regime formation: managing natural resources and the environment

Ist Teil von

• International organization, 1989-01, Vol.43 (3), p.350-376

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Why do actors in international society succeed in forming institutional arrangements or regimes to cope with some transboundary problems but fail to do so in connection with other, seemingly similar, problems? This article employs a threefold strategy to make progress toward answering this question. The first section prepares the ground by identifying and critiquing the principal models embedded in the existing literature on regime formation, and the second section articulates an alternative model, called institutional bargaining. The third section employs this alternative model to derive some hypotheses about the determinants of success in institutional bargaining and uses these hypotheses, in a preliminary way, to illuminate the process of regime formation in international society. To lend empirical content to the argument, the article focuses throughout on problems relating to natural resources and the environment. Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press. An electronic version of this article can be accessed via the internet at http://journals.cambridge.org