From peacekeeping to telecommunication standards, the number, level of detail, and subject matter of international agreements have grown exponentially in recent decades. What are the consequences of the sheer complexity of international governance today? This symposium suggests a new framework to understand this proliferation of international accords: "international regime complexity." "International regime complexity" refers to the presence of nested, partially overlapping and parallel international regimes that are not hierarchically ordered. The contributors find that complexity has a causal influence by creating a political environment that alters the behavior of states, IOs, and sub-state actors.

Last modified

• 01/01/2019

Creator

• Christina Davis
• Alexander Betts
• Stephanie Hofmann
• Laurence Hefner
• Daniel Drezner
• Emilie Hafner-Burton
• Karen Alter,
• Judith Kelley

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2NT93

Alternate Identifier

• 07-003

Keyword

• Buffett
• International

Date created

• 2007

Resource type

• Research Paper

Rights statement

• In Copyright