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Getting It Done
Post-Agreement Negotiation and International Regimes
Bertram Spector and I. William
Zartman, editors
Washington, DC: United States
Institute of Peace Press, 2003
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From NAFTA to NATO, from the
WTO to the WHO, a vast array of international regimes manages an astounding number of
regional and global problems. Yet the dynamics of these enormously influential bodies are
barely understood. Scholars have scrutinized international regimes, but that scrutiny has
been narrowly focused on questions of regime formation and regime compliance. Remarkably
little attention has been paid to the crucial question of how regimes sustain themselves
and evolve.
This pioneering work sets
about correcting that neglect. As its title suggests, Getting It Done explores how
international regimes accomplish their goals—goals that constantly shift as problems
change and the power of member-states shifts. In a series of conceptually bold opening
chapters, the volume editors emphasize that successful evolution depends above all on a
process of continuous negotiation—domestic as well as international—in which
norms, principles, and rules are modified as circumstances and interests change.
The second part of the volume
takes this framework and applies it to four case studies, two regional, two global. Each
case study presents the aims, achievements, and structure of a regime and demonstrates how
it adjusts its course through negotiation. A final chapter draws both theoretical and
practical lessons for the future.
Bertram Spector is
president of the Center for Negotiation Analysis and editor-in-chief of International
Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice. I. William Zartman is professor
and director of the Conflict Management Program at the School for Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
Contents
Regimes and Negotiation, Bertram Spector and I. William Zartman
 The Dynamics of
Regime Formation, I. William Zartman Deconstructing the Negotiations of Regime Dynamics, Bertram
Spector Norms
and Principles, Gunnar Sjostedt The Mediterranean Action Plan, Lynn Wagner The OSCE, Janie Leatherman
The Ozone Depletion
Regime, Pamela S. Chasek The Regimes against Torture, Anna R. Korula Regimes in Motion, Bertram
Spector and I. William Zartman
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