The Regime Approach and the Institutional Approach

Negotiation and Operation

• Negotiation

– Agendas and rule-setting

– Power vs. efficiency

• Operation

Transparency vs. efficiency

Monitoring and enforcement

The Regime Approach

• The effects of cooperation on states

• Assumes that IOs themselves are efficient but passive

• Efficiency and power can both liberals and realists be right?

• Regimes and the efficiency-maximizing approach

Beyond Efficiency

• Regulative rules and constitutive rules

• IOs as creators of legitimacy

• IOs as creators of knowledge

• IOs as creators of values

• IOs as creators of interests

Institutions as Actors

• The bully pulpit

• Rule-setting

• Spending

• Personnel

Institutional Pathologies

• Institutional interests vs. state interests

• Constituent interests vs. state interests

• Standard operating procedures and institutional rigidity

• Individual interests