Webpages tagged with « international regimes»
This paper takes the contested concept of Europeanization, investigates its contrasting uses and maps out an institutional approach to European dynamics of change.
ARENA Working Paper 02/2002 (html)
Johan P. Olsen
What remains of the basis of law in societies of increasingly knowledge-based and internationalised systems of governance? This paper discusses such questions in the light of different theoretical positions.
ARENA Working Paper 14/2000 (html)
Inger Johanne Sand
This paper discusses conditionality - the use of incentives to alter a state's behaviour or policies - in the light of post-Cold War developments in Europe. It is argued here that regional integration generates a transition of national interests; the toolkit for analysing compliance must henceforth be expanded.
ARENA Working Paper 18/2000 (html)
Jeffrey T. Checkel
Taking a broader view of changes in the international structure during the 1990s, this paper makes the observation that traditional security policies have changed - due to (i) the end of the Cold War and (ii) the strengthening of international institutions. However, varying openness to change makes this process less clear-cut in some countries than in others.
ARENA Working Paper 04/2001 (html)
Helene Sjursen
This paper discusses the hypothesised decline of bilateral diplomacy in the EU and presents an empirical indicator of such decline, measuring the number of diplomatic staff over time in bilateral embassies.
ARENA Working Paper 10/2007 (pdf)
Øivind Bratberg
Process tracing, much in the ascendant as methodological approach, brings research closer to politics and strengthens the reliability of our findings. However, there are obvious risks entailed.
ARENA Working Paper 26/2005 (pdf)
Jeffrey T. Checkel
What are the causal variables behind domestic structural change? This paper sketches a comparative analysis of three 'most different cases' of the Eastern bloc; one of the conclusions drawn is that individual agency, while crucial in an authoritarian setting, must be supplemented by constructivist insights of social learning and ideational exchange.
ARENA Working Paper 02/1999 (html)
Jeffrey T. Checkel
This paper discusses the potential of social constructivism to gain a better understanding of international institutions; socialization is conceived of as a key concept for such understanding to be reached.
ARENA Working Paper 05/2004 (html)
Jeffrey T. Checkel
This article examines changing conceptions of citizenship and the rights of minorities -- that is, national membership -- in contemporary Europe. In so doing, it addresses some of the theoretical challenges faced by social constructivism when aspiring to account for agency in the diffusion of social norms.
ARENA Working Paper 16/1998 (html)
Jeffrey Checkel
This paper argues that social constructivism suffers from a lack of micro-level, social agency theory; it attempts to fill this lacuna by analyzing state actor compliance with human rights regimes.
ARENA Working Paper 24/1999 (html)
Jeffrey T. Checkel