Capacity Building In International Cooperation

International Cooperation has been a lasting topic in the arena of International Relations. As the research deepens, the scholars home and abroad have broadened their discussion from the possibility and necessity of cooperation in early time to be more specific area, such as energy, environment and environment, and the details concerning cooperation (the patterns, evolution, international institutions on cooperation). Therefore, the theory of cooperation is now getting its improvement.Capacity building is the concept more and more seen in the area of international relations and international cooperation since 1990s. It now signifies the actions with the involvement of multi-actors in the social environment, creating the appreciable political and judicial institutions in order to promote the developing countries and organizations to implement relevant policies. While the fact that the climate is changing globally pushes human to find the solution against it, due to the disparity of the development levels, the developing countries in particular the small island countries, low land countries and least developed countries, haven't sufficient capacity to deal with it. Such a situation has not only impeded the process of achieving an agreement in international climate negotiation, but also will postpone the pace of human taking effective actions.Therefore, it is urgently needed to conduct the research on capacity building in this field.In the article, the first section briefly analyses the two major factors affecting international cooperation in the game theory, with the confirmation of capacity building to be an important item of cooperation, elaborates the different types of cooperation between developed countries and developing countries in the respective circumstance of reversion and compensation of the international agreements, as well as the function by capacity building.The second section argues the concrete policies and proposals about capacity building both in the global level and in the EU level. It is on the consensus of the parties to United Unition's Framework Convention on Climate Change and its protocol and the taking into account of EU leadership in the negotiation and the practices that European Union Policy on Climate Change works progressively.In the third section the empirical test about the theoretical hypothesis is conducted to assess the position of EU resulting from the analysis of costs and benefits. The three cases concerning the cooperation between EU and the developing countries indicate the positiveness in the actions. In the comparison with the three different ways of cooperation, the question that to what extent capacity building contributes to the international cooperation on climate change and how to go further needs to be answered.The fourth section is the conclusion to the anterior analysis and somehow to predict the possible and valuable research on EU policy on climate change in the future.