The authors examine three different theoretical approaches to international regimes: realism, neoliberalism and cognitivism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: three perspectives on international regimes; 2. Conceptual issues: defining international regimes; 3. Interest-based theories: political market failure, situation and problem structures, and institutional bargaining; 4. Power-based theories: hegemony, distributional conflict and relative gains; 5. Knowledge-based theories: ideas, arguments and social identities; 6. Conclusion: prospects for synthesis; References; Index.
