Study The Effectiveness Of The International Regime

The study of institutional effectiveness is a fundamental task of International Institutions Theory, and also is a cornerstone of Global Governance Theory. The Effectiveness of International Institutions (Eâ…¡) broadens and deepens the understanding to the essence of world affairs. Now, international institutions have become the usual facts of real politics, and international institutions also begin to diffuse, broaden and deepen. In view of the theoretical and realistic significance of Eâ…¡, it is necessary to make an all-sided, deep and systematic study. Nearly forty years passed, in the domain of effectiveness, the theoretical constructions and the research methods have reached great advancements. However, the study of Eâ…¡has also some shortcomings and confinements. The causal relations of institutional effectiveness, the ways and methods, the questions of compliance and implementation, all of which confine the persuasiveness of Eâ…¡.The concept of causation is one of core notions for each science which includes the humanities. In the domain of social science, causation has huge influence on IR theory. Causation also becomes the important area which is focused by IR scholars. Rationalism and Constructivism have strong arguments about causation. However, the prediction of international institutions theory is low, and the model of cause and effect is also weak. Now, it is very short to explain Eâ…¡by causation theory. It must seek for scientific methods to demonstrate the causation clearly, and enter into the details of causal mechanisms which form the outcomes.Causal effect, causal mechanism and causal inference are the core notions to explain Eâ…¡by causation theory. Causal inference includes causal effect and causal mechanism, so causal effect and causal mechanism consist of the corner of Eâ…¡by causation theory. From the viewpoint of causation to study Eâ…¡, it includes three parts: through the causal effect between the institution and its effect to elucidate whether the institution is effective or not; through the causal mechanism between the cause and the outcome to discuss how the institution is effective; through the causal mechanism in institutional interplay to elucidate the causal relation of the institutions. The quantitative approach is used to study institution is effective or ineffective, and the qualitative approach is used to study how the institution is effective.This dissertation tries to construct the framework in the domain of Eâ…¡. Th e framework argues the cause of institutional effectiveness and evaluates the consequence through the way of causation. The framework includes two aspects:on the one hand, it refers to the influence factors, which are elucidated by power, legitimacy and domestic politics. Influence factors are the important aspects when Eâ…¡is discussed. It recognizes that the factors of institutional function are necessary to know causation. The paper borrows endogenous variables and exogenous variables, and inducts into the intervening variables. It tries to interpret systematically the influence factors of Eâ…¡. The author views power as endogenous variable, which has decidable meaning to institutional effects and constitutes the structure of efficient institution. Legitimacy is exogenous variable, which is the immanence and postulation of it. Domestic politics is intervening variable, which has something independence. The paper constructs the theoretical forms of EII by these three variables and provides a pathway for it.On the other hand, it refers to the standards of evaluation, which is elucidated by the intricate relationships among compliance, implementation and Eâ…¡, which include the paradox of compliance by the disorder in causation and the difficulty in the process of implementation from the viewpoint of causation. IR scholars use compliance as a litmus test of the causal influence of institutions. While such tests offer a degree of objectivity, they do not necessarily confirm a relationship between compliance and Eâ…¡. Compliance then is a misreading of the institutional causal relationship. Compliance research does offer an important lesson for understanding the effectiveness of institutions:researchers must carefully select indicators in assessing causality so that they can accurately determine the causal impact of institutions on a state's policies and behavior. To discuss whether the institution is effective or ineffective and how the institution is effective, it must focus on the process, the construction and the way of the treaty being implemented. The implementation of a specific issue can grasp the strength and direction of causal mechanism.Contrasting the differences of qualitative case studies and quantitative methods, the dissertation combines two approaches. It discusses the influence factors of Eâ…¡by the International Ozone Layer Depletion Institutions; It discusses the causal relations among compliance, implementation and Eâ…¡by the quantitative studies of The Convention on Long-Range Trans-boundary Air Pollution and the quantitative studies of The 1988 Sofia Protocol Concerning the Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides or Their Trans-boundary Fluxes. The theoretical implication of this dissertation helps to expose the institutional influence clearly, which is not simple and direct, but intricate and indirect. So, the causal pathway to form one consequence is special and intricate. On the one hand, international institutions are the important factors which influence the specific consequence, and in some circumstances it constructs a major factor; on the other hand, it is hasty to gain the "all or nothing" conclusion. In order to improve Eâ…¡, it is necessity to think the influential factors, such as power, domestic politics and legitimacy, and it needs carefully to evaluate Eâ…¡by the compliance and the implementation. In practice, it has strong realistic and political implications. According to the developing countries, it needs to think about the costs and benefits when they join into international organizations, to grasp the rules of international organizations, and to influence actively the issue-setting rights.