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Theories of international regimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Stephan Haggard  and
Beth A. Simmons
Stephan Haggard
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Beth A. Simmons
Affiliation:
Candidate in Government at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Abstract

Over the last decade, international regimes have become a major focus of empirical research and theoretical debate within international relations. This article provides a critical review of this literature. We survey contending definitions of regimes and suggest dimensions along which regimes vary over time or across cases; these dimensions might be used to operationalize “regime change.” We then examine four approaches to regime analysis: structural, game-theoretic, functional, and cognitive. We conclude that the major shortcoming of the regimes literature is its failure to incorporate domestic politics adequately. We suggest a research program that begins with the central insights of the interdependence literature which have been ignored in the effort to construct “systemic” theory.

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International Organization , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , Summer 1987 , pp. 491 - 517
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1987

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