International Cooperation: Building Regimes for Natural Resources and the Environment

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Cornell University Press, 1989 - Law - 248 pages
The notion of regimes as institutions that shape international behavior has received much attention from scholars in the field of international relations as a way of understanding how sovereign states secure international cooperation. Oran Young here seeks both to develop our theoretical grasp of international regimes and to expand the range of empirical applications of this line of analysis.
 

Contents

The Problem of International Cooperation
1
Prologue
9
Institutions
31
Why International Regimes
58
The Rise and Fall of International
81
Prologue
107
Nuclear
145
Arctic Shipping
165
Prologue
191
Toward a New Theory of International
193
Institutional Design in International Society
216
Index
237
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