Regime theory and international relations

Part 1 Research on international regimes: research on international regimes in Germany - the adaptive internalization of an American social science concept the analysis of international regimes - towards a European-American research programme. Part 2 Conceptual and theoretical problems of regime analysis: international society and the study of regimes - a reflective approach contract and regimes - do issue-specificity and variations of formality matter? crossing the boundary between public and private - international regimes and non-state actors progress in game-theoretical analysis of international regimes. Part 3 Regime formation and change: sovereignty, regimes and human rights epistemic communities and the dynamics of international environmental co-operation cognitive factors in explaining regime dynamics testing theories of regime formation - findings from a large collaborative research project integrating and contextualizing hypotheses - alternative paths to better explanations of regime formation? bringing the second image (back) in - about the domestic sources of regime formation. Part 4 Regime consequences: constructing historical counterfactuals to assess the consequences of international regimes - the global debt regime and the course of the debt crisis of the 1980s analyzing regime consequences - conceptual outlines and environmental explorations the internalization of principles, norms and rules by governments - the case of security regimes. Part 5 Conclusion: regime theory - state-of-the-art and perspectives.