International Regimes and Globalization: Tools for Managing Complex Change

Abstract

International Regimes have long been understood as cooperative mechanisms that allow states to work with each other, shaping expectations and generating areas of convergence on specific issues. Ranging across numerous areas, from fisheries conservation to the control of illicit goods, they can often operate where international institutional control is weak. A better understanding of regime construction would contribute to more effective management of complex change under conditions of globalization.