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Understanding the Formation of International Environmental Regimes: The Discursive Challenge

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The Politics of International Environmental Management

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What has happened when an international regime has been formed? This is the underlying question in this paper.1 Obviously, a group of states have agreed to commit themselves to some kind of behavioural standards, more or less constraining and enabling. But what kind of processes produced their decision to initiate the formation or at least to join in the formation?

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Stokke, O.S. (1998). Understanding the Formation of International Environmental Regimes: The Discursive Challenge. In: Underdal, A. (eds) The Politics of International Environmental Management. European Science Foundation, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4946-4_7

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