Baylis,, Smith and

d Owens: T
The Globa
alization of World Pol itics 6e
Re
evision guiide
Ch
hapter 19: Internatio
onal regim
mes

Re
egimes represent an important ffeature of globalizatio
on.

Ag
growing nu
umber of global regim
mes is bein
ng formed.

The term reg

gimes, and
d social sccience apprroaches to them, aree recent but fit into a
lon
ng-standing
g tradition of thought about inte
ernational law.

The onset of dtente, th

he loss of hegemonic
c status by
y the USA, and the growing
wareness of environm
mental prob
blems sens
sitized sociial scientissts to the need for a
aw
the
eory of regimes.

beral institu
utionalists and
a realistts have dev
veloped co
ompeting aapproaches
s to the
Lib
ana
alysis of re
egimes.

Re
egime theory is an atttempt initia
ated in the 1970s by social scieentists to account for
the
e existence
e of rule-go
overned be
ehaviour in
n the anarc
chic internaational systtem.

Re
egimes havve been de
efined by p rinciples, norms,
n
rule
es, and deccision-mak
king
pro
ocedures.

egimes can
n be classiffied in term
ms of the fo
ormality of the underllying agree
ements
Re
and
d the degree of expe
ectation tha
at the agre
eements will be obserrved. Full-b
blown,
taccit, and dea
ad-letter re
egimes can
n be identiffied.

Re
egimes now
w help to re
egulate inte
ernational relations in many sppheres of activity.
a

The market iss used by liberal insttitutionalists as an an

nalogy for tthe anarchic
inte
ernational system.

In a market/in
nternationa
al setting, p
public goods get und
derproduceed and pub
blic bads
gett overproduced.

Lib
beral institu
utionalists draw
d
on th
he Prisonerrs Dilemm
ma game too account fo
or the
structural imp
pediments to regime formation..

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d Owens: T
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alization of World Pol itics 6e
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evision guiide

Ah
hegemon, the shado
ow of the fu
uture, and an information-rich eenvironme
ent
pro
omote colla
aboration and
a an esccape route from the Prisoners
P
D
Dilemma.

Re
ealists argu
ue that liberal institutiionalists ignore the im
mportance of power when
w
exa
amining re
egimes.

Re
ealists draw
w on the Ba
attle of the
e Sexes ga
ame to illum
minate the nature of
coo
ordination and its link
k to power in an anarrchic settin
ng.

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