| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 國際事務與戰略研究所 === 84 === International regimes are defined as principles, norms, rules,
and decision - making procedures around which actor
expectations converge in a given issue area. As a starting
point, regimes have been conceptualized as intervening
variables, standing between basic casual factors and related
outcomes and behavior. Regimes are harder to establish in the
security area than they are in the economic realm because of
the inherently competitive cast of many security concerns, the
unforgiving how much security the state has or needs.
Nevertheless, there is at least one example of a functioning
security regime -- Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The study
of regimes can begin from two approaches -- hegemonic
stability theory and function theory. Hegemonic stability
theory developed here accepts the realist image of
international politics, in which hegemonic leader is a very
important factor in an anarchic environment. Function theory
stresses that cooperation among states create for regime''s
continuance. Epistemic community, however, plays an ultimate
role in the formation of regime. Current superpower relations
should not be considereda regime because of the principles,
rules, and norms have little autonomy but instead can be best
understood as quiet direct reflections of states'' power and
interests. This thesis addresses that two distinctive
traditions have developed from structural realist
perspectives. The first forcuses purely on interaction
among states. The second focuses on the relationship between
the distribution of power and various international
environments it is the latter tradition that suggests why
regimes may be important for a realist orientation. However,
it also opens the possibility for viewing regimes as a
utonomous, not just as intervening, variables. There may be
lags between changes in basic casual variable and regime change.
There may be feedback suggest an importancefor regimes that
would be rejected by conventional structural arguments.
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