Chapter 3.5: The rise of international institutions and regimes

Question 1

What helps to tame international anarchy in the international system?

Answer 1

increasingly dense network of formal and informal agreements and a strengthening of international law leads to emerging system of global governance

Question 2

Definition of international regimes by Stephen Krasner

Answer 2

sets of implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and decision making procedures around which actors expectations converge in a given area of international relations

Question 3

What did multilateralism recognises?

Answer 3

the right of all nations to participate in international negotiations and norm setting, irrespective of their status or power

Example: WTO one nation one vote. no trade is finalised until all agreed

Question 4

What is the positive effect of international institutions?

Answer 4

brought the world closer to a more orderly and stable pattern of international relations