Asks questions about the effects of IOs on the ways in which actors in international politics think and on the ideas that drive international relations
Reflectivist approach
Rationalist study in regime theory can be summed up as____
transparency
Transparency reduce transaction costs by:
1. providing a forum for discussing issues
2. creating administrative structures
a goal when designing regimes
Efficiency
States create regimes to maximize the efficiency of their interactions with each other by:
- minimizing costs
- maximizing benefits, such as international security
- economic cooperation
- human rights
Asymmetries of interdependence can be
less straightforward
When one country needs an IO less than another, it will have relatively more power in creating and managing it ( example of ? )
Asymmetries of interdependence
a form of the third face of power, difficult to measure
Ideology
Neo-institutionalism
- The way bureaucracies behave
- The effects of these broader patterns of behavior