The Politics of International Regime Complexity

Alter, Karen J.; Meunier, Sophie

doi:10.1017/s1537592709090033

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“…Those arguments are bounded in two signifi cant ways. First, they focus predominantly on interstate regimes (Aggarwal, 1998;Alter and Meunier, 2009;Helfer, 2004;Oberthür and Gehring, 2011;Raustiala and Victor, 2004), albeit with a few signifi cant exceptions (Green, 2011;Kelley, 2009). Second, they are primarily concerned with regimes that promulgate legally binding rules; in the 'soft law' world of RSS a number of implications do not hold.…”

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The Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change

Abbott

2012

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Abstract. In climate change, as in other areas, recent years have produced a 'Cambrian explosion' of transnational institutions, standards, fi nancing arrangements, and programs. As a result, climate governance has become complex, fragmented, and decentralized, operating without central coordination. Most studies of climate governance focus on inter state institutions. In contrast, I map a diff erent realm of climate change governance: the diverse array of transnational schemes. I analyze this emerging system in terms of two theoretical frameworks developed to describe, explain, and evaluate complex governance arrangementsregime complex theory and polycentric governance theory-revealing fruitful avenues for positive and normative research. I conclude by arguing that the benefi ts of institutional complexity could be increased, and the costs reduced, through nonhierarchical 'orchestration' of climate change governance, in which international organizations or other appropriate authorities support and steer transnational schemes that further global public interests.

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The Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change

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2012

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“…The current analysis will seek to build on this rich scholarship through considering EFA from the point of view of recent developments in the understanding of global governance. In particular, the article will attempt to understand global governance in relation to the working of different kinds of power (Barnett and Duvall 2005;Barnett and Duvall 2004a) and as a regime of global governance operating within a regime complex (Orsini, Morin, and Young 2013;Barnett and Walker 2015;Young 2012;Hook and Rumsey 2015;Drezner 2009;Keohane and Victor 2011;Alter and Meunier 2009). In so doing the article will seek to bring together a liberal institutionalist concern with the nature of regimes and the role of regimes in developing consensus around a common set of principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures in a particular issue area with a more critical concern with the power dynamics within regimes and how regimes are shaped and in turn influence power relationships within the wider field of global governance.…”

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The Future of Education for All as a Global Regime of Educational Governance

Tikly¹

2017

Comparative Education Review

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms 1The Future of Education for All as a Global Regime of Educational Governance 1 AbstractThe article critically considers the future of Education for All (EFA) understood as a global regime of educational governance. The article sets out an understanding of global governance, world order, power and legitimacy within which EFA is embedded. It explains what is meant by EFA as a regime of global governance and as part of a 'regime complex' along with other regimes concerned with different areas of economic and social development that impact on education and development. The article traces the genealogy of EFA focusing on the development of key tensions and contradictions since the late 1980s.Here the emphasis will be on understanding the effects of different kinds of power that are in turn linked to broader global interests within a changing world order. The article concludes by considering the future of EFA. It is suggested that EFA since the adoption of the Incheon declaration and Framework for Action is giving way to a new global regime of educational governance in which education and in particular learning is linked to sustainable development, albeit in contradictory ways.

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“…This does not necessarily require the concentration of responsibilities, but does imply that implementation efforts are coordinated and coherent, to avoid duplication of efforts, inefficient use of resources, or (domestic) normative ambiguity (Brown Weiss 1993;Alter and Meunier 2009;Oberthür and Stokke 2011). For instance, if the pursuit of SDG 15, with targets on forest conservation, sought an increase in carbon storage (such as through delineation of new national parks) without stakeholder engagement and/or commitment to the emerging REDD?…”

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The Sustainable Development Goals and REDD+: assessing institutional interactions and the pursuit of synergies

Lima

Kissinger²,

Visseren-Hamakers

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Int Environ Agreements

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This paper analyzes potential synergies between two recent sustainable development initiatives, namely the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD?), a climate mitigation mechanism negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The paper elaborates a conceptual framework based on institutional interactions and distinguishes core, complementary, and supplementary synergies that may be realized between the SDGs and REDD?. Potential synergies are analyzed at the global level, as well as within two national-level contexts: Indonesia, with its long-standing REDD? programme, and Myanmar, which is in the early stages of implementing REDD?. Both are now also engaging nationally with the SDG implementation process. Our research draws on literature review and document analysis, direct observations of global policy processes relating to REDD? and SDGs, as well as extensive engagement (of one author) 123Int Environ Agreements (2017) 17:589-606 DOI 10.1007 at national level in Indonesia and Myanmar. Our analysis reveals that there are currently significant opportunities to pursue synergies in the implementation of these international initiatives at the national level, although pro-active interaction management is necessary, especially to achieve complementary synergies.

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The Politics of International Regime Complexity

Cited by 687 publications

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The Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change

The Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change

The Future of Education for All as a Global Regime of Educational Governance

The Sustainable Development Goals and REDD+: assessing institutional interactions and the pursuit of synergies

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