International regimes / edited by Stephen D. Krasner.

Table of Contents

1. Overview
Structural causes and regime consequences
Regimes as intervening variables
Words can hurt you; who said what to whom about regimes

2 Grotian perspectives
International regimes: lessons from inductive analysis
Regime dynamics: the rise and fall of international regimes

3. Structural Perspectives
Coordination and collaboration: regimes in anarchic world
The demand for international regimes

4. Security regimes
International regimes, transactions, and change: Embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order
The transformation of trade: the sources and affects of regime change
The GATT and the relation of trade barriers: regime dynamics and functions
Balance of payments financing: evolution of a regime

5. Conclusions, con and pro
Cave! hic dragons
A critique of regime analysis
Regimes and the limits of realism:
regimes as autonomous variable

Includes bibliographical references and index.