Responses to Interface Conflicts: How Spheres of Authority Handle Conflicting Rules (RESPONSES)

该项目的回应分析了对一种特殊类型的界面冲突的反应，即不同部门国际权威领域之间的冲突。我们的因变量是接口冲突的处理。我们将界面冲突的处理设想为不同类型的行为者对这种冲突的个人反应产生的互动结果。我们的项目旨在解释哪些形式的冲突管理是针对水平界面冲突而演变的。这个问题是从两个角度来处理的。在一个单元中，我们确定了国际组织(IOS)秘书处认为的部门接口冲突。在第二个模块中，我们分析G峰会(G7、G8和G20)，以探索文献的预期，即这个国际权威场所最接近国际体系中的元权威的概念，被设想为定期管理界面冲突的地方。在本模块中，我们将介绍在G7、G8和G20峰会期间处理的接口冲突。总体而言，项目应对措施的目的是：(A)描述处理不同国际权力范围之间相互作用所产生的界面冲突的形式；(B)解释不同形式的处理界面冲突的条件；以及(C)评估在全球治理体系中行使元权力的程度和地点。

The project RESPONSES analyzes the reactions to one particular type of interface conflict, namely those between different sectoral spheres of international authority. Our dependent variable is the handling of interface conflicts. We conceive of the handling of an interface conflict as an interactive outcome emerging from the individual responses to such a conflict from different types of actors. Our project aims at explaining which forms of conflict management evolve in response to horizontal interface conflicts. The question is approached from two angles. In one module, we identify sectoral interface conflicts as perceived by the secretariats of international organizations (IOs). In a second module, we analyze the G- summits (G7, G8, and G20) in order to probe the expectation of the literature that this site of international authority comes closest to the notion of a meta-authority in the international system, conceived as the place where interface conflicts are regularly managed. In this module, we identify those interface conflicts dealt with during the G7, G8, and G20 summits. Overall, the project RESPONSES aims at a) describing the forms of handling interface conflicts that emerge from the interaction between different spheres of international authority, b) explaining the conditions under which different forms of handling interface conflicts prevail, and c) assessing to which extent and where meta-authority is exercised in the global governance system.