Creating Regimes

Oran R. Young is Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of many previous books, including three from Cornell, of which the most recent is International Governance: Protecting the Environment in a Stateless Society.

Creating Regimes is a highly persuasive and perceptive work about two international regimes that have become central to nonmilitary cooperation in the Arctic in recent years.... Provides helpful insights into current policy and legal issue at the poles.- Even T. Bloom (American Journal of International Law) This book is to my knowledge the first to account for the emergence of Arctic cooperation explicitly employing concepts from the literature on regimes, and it reinforces the author's longstanding efforts to draw attention to the Arctic as a test-bed for examining various aspects of regime analysis. The fact that Oran Young has at times himself been a 'player' in Arctic cooperation adds to the validity of his insights.(Environmental Politics) Young's latest volume is in many ways a logical extension of his Polar Politics; it builds on his experience as a theorist of international organization and his experience with regime-building in the circumpolar north.... Young is not presenting another grand theory of regime formation but a needed corrective to the tendency to find single-factor explanations.(Choice)