International Organizations and the Management of Regime Complexity - Disregard, Confrontation, Coordination, and Cooperation

This book argues that IOs can actively manage regime complexity and potentially avoid negative side effects or even create positive benefits.

List of contents

• List of abbreviations


• 1: Introduction


• 2: Regional Regime Complexity and its Potential Effects


• 3: Theorizing Responses to Regional Regime Complexity


• 4: Africa


• 5: Americas


• 6: Asia


• 7: Europe


• 8: Conclusion


• Appendix


• References


• Index

About the author

Diana Panke is Professor of International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin. Previously she held positions at the University of Freiburg and University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of global or regional international organizations, regime complexity, international negotiations, and small states in international relations, as well as explanatory research on international norms. Her work is theory-driven, methodologically sound, and empirical in nature.

Sören Stapel is Senior Lecturer at the Center for International Relations at Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. He previously held positions in Freiburg, Jena, and Gothenburg. His research interests include international organizations, comparative regionalism, norm and policy diffusion, financing of international and regional organizations, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, as well as overlapping regionalism and regime complexity.

Product details

• Authors: Diana (Professor of International Relations Panke, Panke Diana, Sören Stapel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9780198953197
• ISBN: 978-0-19-895319-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Transformations In Governance
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government, Central government