The categorization of parties as either Annex I (including a subset of Annex II parties) or non-Annex I constitutes the political and procedural cornerstone of the climate change regime. Annex I parties have quantitative commitments, notably emissions targets inscribed in Annex B to the Kyoto...

The complex politics of climate change cannot be properly understood without reference to deeper geopolitical trends in the wider international system. Chief among these is the growing resurgence of 'great-power politics' between China and the US, along with failures of socialization and...

The international relations literature often assumes that negotiators in global regimes are actively seeking a collective agreement to the problem on the table. There are cases, however, where a delegation may instead be "striving for no," that is, participating with the aim of obstructing a...

Promoting learning among participants is a key function commonly attributed to international regimes. Such learning, however, cannot always be guaranteed, and regimes may sometimes descend into ossification. In contrast to a learning regime, an ossifying regime is one that is unable to process...