1. International Regimes
Collaboration or Coordination?
James Napier

2. Introduction Why Study Regimes?
It’s taken for granted that regimes exist and are useful and influential in world politics.
But what theorists want to understand is how they are created and how and they change.
Who benefits from regimes?

3. Find the terrorist(s)?

4. Norms and Expectations
Defining Elements
Norms and Expectations
“…implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures around which actors' expectations converge in a given area of international relations."

5. Defining Elements Broad category for regimes
Implicit Regimes
Explicit Regimes
Broad category for regimes
Based on ideological principles and norms
Narrow category for regimes
Based of formalized agreements and negotiations

6. Defining Elements Principles -> Ideological (implicit)
Norms -> Behavioural
Rules /Decision Making Procedures -> Formalized
(explicit)

7. International Organizations?
Is regime theory just a complicated way of explaining international organizations ?
No...
International organizations are formal structures that develop out of regimes.

8. International Organizations?
Post WWII American Liberalism (implicit) (organizations) (explicit)

9. International Organizations?
International Regimes -> International Organizations
Institutions -> Organizations
Ex:
Education/schools
Law/courts

10. Hegemony Theory

11. Hegemonic Regime Theory
Both sides agree the postwar American hegemony created many of the regimes we still see today.
-> Which country’s currency became the world reserve currency?
Liberals - once states realize that collaborating is to their benefit they will maintain the regimes in the absence of a hegemon
Realists – hegemons use their power to sustain regimes that promote their long term interests

12. Explaining Regimes Hegemonic creation
Liberalism
Realism
Hegemonic creation
Microeconomics/gametheory approach
Allows states to collaborate towards maximum outcomes
Hegemonic creation
Pareto Frontier/power politics
States are coordinating towards their best interests

13. Liberalism Prisoner’s Dilemma The shadow of the future Reciprocity
Benign view of the hegemon

14. Realism Regimes are an arena of political coordination
Developing/developed world have incompatible goals
States use/work within
regimes to maintain power
(Pareto frontier/relative gains)

15. Social Constructivism
Took a sociological rather than economic approach
Political authority rests on legitimate social purpose
No one minds England having Nuclear weapons, but North Korea?

16. Questions/Comments?
Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Accord are two examples of failed regimes. Why do you think it’s so hard for environmental regimes to be put in place?
Do you think regimes allow countries to achieve maximum outcomes?