Abstract
I believe that the phenomenon of regionalization that currently gains weight as a characteristic of the international system bears a great potential for increasing the effectiveness of complex international environmental regimes. Constituting a sub-level within the international system, macro-regions create a bridge between the anarchy of the international system and the order of the state, by doing so, allowing for a certain amount of intra-regional cooperation to emerge and facilitating inter-regional coordination. The corresponding fragmentation of complex environmental regimes into sub-regimes consisting of groups of states sharing certain characteristics and interests can be expected to contribute to an increase in their effectiveness.
Highlights
Since the beginning of 1970s, the natural environment has been subject to international discussion
Constituting a sub-level within the international system, macro-regions create a bridge between the anarchy of the international system and the order of the state, by doing so, allowing for a certain amount of intra-regional cooperation to emerge and facilitating inter-regional coordination
Among the global environmental regimes that constitute the subject to this analysis, those ones that have proven to be effective had two things in common – they were design to tackle so-called “tame” (Grundmann, 2018, p. 438) or “benign” (Wettestad, 2011, p. 321) problems, while the goals pursued by the regimes did not contradict the national interest of its key participants
Summary
Since the beginning of 1970s, the natural environment has been subject to international discussion. Having studied the reasons behind this reality, two central variables determining the failure or success of a global environmental regime became evident – the complexity of the issue they are designed to address and the national interest of its participants. With this in mind, the following work summarizes the major findings of the research I conducted so far and presents a possible solution to the identified problem. Constituting elements of the international system, international environmental regimes are subjected to its structure defining the framework in which they operate and conditional upon the units of which they consist. The necessity to study both the structure and the units of the international system in order to understand it in its entirety is a research design in line with the systems approach to the study of the international-political system introduced by Kenneth Waltz in 1979
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