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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 institutions composed of roles, rules, and relationships -- are not actors in their own right, they can succeed only by influencing the behavior of their members or actors operating under their members' jurisdiction.
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This book examines how regimes influence the behavior of their members and those associated with them. It identifies six mechanisms through which regimes affect behavior and discusses the role of each through in-depth case studies of three major environmental concerns: intentional vessel-source oil pollution, shared fisheries, and transboundary acid rain. The behavioral mechanisms feature regimes as utility modifiers, as enhancers of cooperation, as bestowers of authority, as learning facilitators, as role definers, and as agents of internal realignments.

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