As a quintessential long-term policy problem, climate change poses two major challenges. The first is to develop, under considerable uncertainty, a plan for allocating resources over time to achieve an effective policy response. The second is to implement this plan, once arrived at, consistently...

In international regimes research, one of the most important questions is how effective regimes are in delivering what they were established and designed to achieve. Perhaps the most explicit and rigorous formula for measuring regime effectiveness is the so-called Oslo-Potsdam solution. This...

Why is effective international cooperation sometimes so hard to establish even when a seemingly convincing rationale can be given for its usefulness? Working from the assumption that accurate problem 'diagnosis' is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for successful 'political...

A team based at the University of Tübingen has contributed significantly to the recent development of the analysis of international rules and norms (often referred to as international regimes) that (are supposed to) govern given systems of activities. One of its major contributions has been to...