Creating regimes

Oran R. Young has been a key participant in recent debates among international relations scholars about the dynamics of rule-making and rule-following in international society. In this book, he weaves together theoretical issues relating to the formation of international regimes and substantive issue's relating to the emergence of the Arctic as a distinct region in world affairs. Young divides the overall process of regime formation into three stages - agenda formation, negotiation, and operationalization - and argues that each stage has its own particular political dynamics. Efforts to…