In this book Oran Young extends and generalizes his earlier work on international environmental regimes to present a comprehensive account of the current status and future ...

International institutions and the consequences of their interplay are emerging as a major agenda item for research and policy. As governments enter into an ever-increasing ...

To be effective, an international regime must play a significant role in solving or at least managing the problem that led to its creation. But because regimes--social ...

An analysis of patterns of change in international environmental regimes, with five case studies illustrating the patterns identified.

How can the global environment be safeguarded in the absence of a world government? In the vanguard of efforts to address this critical question, Oran R. Young draws on ...

The notion of regimes as institutions that shape international behavior has received much attention from scholars in the field of international relations as a way of ...

Oran R. Young is a key participant in recent debates among international relations scholars about the dynamics of rule-making and rule-following in international society. In ...

This is the first systematic assessment of the international 200-mile exclusive economic zone. To date, 145 states have ratified the Law of the Sea Convention, and most have ...