The Politics of Contender Institutions in International Regime Complexes (POLCON)

近几十年来，各国在国际层面协调和处理政治问题的方式发生了深刻变化。在冷战结束以来许多问题领域地缘政治变化的推动下，建立了新的政府间安排，重叠或补充了原有国际机构的职能。事实上，当今全球治理的所有领域都是由一系列“重叠和部分重叠的、管理特定问题领域的无等级制度”组成的。在这些复合体中，各国可以在一系列竞争权威的制度选择中进行选择。由于这种制度综合体的密度日益增加，许多以前处于中心地位和没有争议的遗留机构今天发现自己处于与其他多边安排的体制竞争状态。然而，我们对这些新创造的IOs在进入现有机制后的实际意图和策略却知之甚少。这些新创建的机构参与者何时以及如何决定与传统机构合作，何时决定竞争？为了在他们的政权综合体中站稳脚跟，新成立的竞争机构采取了什么策略？这些策略何时以及如何随着时间和问题而变化？从组织、跨政策领域的角度来看，POLCON将通过系统地分析新创建的竞争机构在时间和空间上的机构间政治，为这些问题提供实证和理论答案。为了实现这一总体目标，将收集和分析涵盖四个不同问题领域（金融稳定、发展援助、能源治理和安全）的机构间活动的大量原始定量和定性数据，这些数据来自国际组织（IOs）的公开和按需可用数据，以及对国际组织官员和成员国政府官员的采访。

The way states coordinate and govern political issues on the international level has changed profoundly throughout the last decades. Driven by the geopolitical transformations since the end of the Cold War in many issue areas new intergovernmental arrangements have been created with overlapping or complementing functions of pre-existing international institutions. Virtually all domains of global governance today are organized in arrays of 'overlapping and partially overlapping and nonhierarchical institutions governing a particular issue-area' Within these complexes, states can select among a set of institutional alternatives competing for authority. As a result of this growing density of regime complexes, many formerly central and uncontested legacy institutions today find themselves in a state of institutional competition with alternative multilateral arrangements. Yet, we know very little about the actual intentions and strategies of these newly created IOs once they entered preexisting regime complexes. When and how do these newly created institutional actors decide to cooperate with legacy institutions, when do they decide to compete? To gain a foothold in their regime complex, what strategies do newly created competitor institutions adopt? When and how do these strategies vary across issues and over time? Taking an organizational, cross- policy area perspective, POLCON will provide empirical as well as theoretical answers to these questions by systematically analyzing the inter-institutional politics of newly created competitor institutions over time and space. To reach this overarching goal, a vast amount of original quantitative and qualitative data covering inter-institutional activities in four different issue areas (Financial Stability, Development Aid, Energy Governance, and Security) will be collected and analyzed drawing on open and on-demand available data from International Organizations (IOs) as well as interviews with IO officials and government officials from member states.