• List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: three perspectives on international regimes; 2. Conceptual issues: defining international regimes; 3. Interest-based theories: political market failure, situation and problem structures, and institutional bargaining; 4. Power-based theories: hegemony, distributional conflict and relative gains; 5. Knowledge-based theories: ideas, arguments and social identities; 6. Conclusion: prospects for synthesis; References; Index.

'The strengths of the book are its clarity, accessibility and ordered structure and the breadth of literature which it covers in a convincing manner. This is an important book within the field, reflecting on its place in the discipline of international relations and searching for an identity, and is all the more interesitng for it.' Peter Newell, International Affairs

• List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: three perspectives on international regimes; 2. Conceptual issues: defining international regimes; 3. Interest-based theories: political market failure, situation and problem structures, and institutional bargaining; 4. Power-based theories: hegemony, distributional conflict and relative gains; 5. Knowledge-based theories: ideas, arguments and social identities; 6. Conclusion: prospects for synthesis; References; Index.

'The strengths of the book are its clarity, accessibility and ordered structure and the breadth of literature which it covers in a convincing manner. This is an important book within the field, reflecting on its place in the discipline of international relations and searching for an identity, and is all the more interesitng for it.' Peter Newell, International Affairs

• List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: three perspectives on international regimes; 2. Conceptual issues: defining international regimes; 3. Interest-based theories: political market failure, situation and problem structures, and institutional bargaining; 4. Power-based theories: hegemony, distributional conflict and relative gains; 5. Knowledge-based theories: ideas, arguments and social identities; 6. Conclusion: prospects for synthesis; References; Index.

'The strengths of the book are its clarity, accessibility and ordered structure and the breadth of literature which it covers in a convincing manner. This is an important book within the field, reflecting on its place in the discipline of international relations and searching for an identity, and is all the more interesitng for it.' Peter Newell, International Affairs