Nested Games: Regional Actors in Multilateral Negotiations

研究表明，地区性组织(RO)经常努力在其本土以外的地方留下自己的印记，例如欧盟在其邻里政策上的表现。该项目也对ROS的外部执行力感兴趣，但关注的焦点不同。它揭示了区域组织在一系列国际组织(IOS)的多边谈判中的作用。自第二次世界大战结束以来，随着地区组织和内部监督组织数量的增加，以及两者国家成员的重叠，区域组织实际上变成了内部监督机构的行为者。例如东盟参与国际劳工组织(劳工组织)的失业保险问题，或南方共同市场支持国际捕鲸委员会(捕鲸委员会)的南大西洋鲸鱼保护区倡议。因此，该项目借鉴了多层次治理办法，以阐明多边谈判区域化的现象。基于各种不同的组织和组织，并基于定量和定性相结合的方法，分析了组织如何积极参与组织谈判，以及它们在形成国际规范方面的影响。有些RO比其他的更活跃吗？有些IO特别容易进行RO活动吗？为什么？尽管区域组织通常不是内部监督办公室的成员，但它们在什么情况下可以对国际规范施加影响？

Research has shown that regional organizations (ROs) are often striving to make their marks beyond their home turf, such as the European Union in its neighborhood policy. The project is also interested in the external actorness of ROs, but with a different focus. It sheds light on the role of ROs in multilateral negotiations across a series of international organizations (IOs). With the increase in the number of ROs and IOs since the end of WWII and the overlapping membership of states in both, ROs turn de facto into actors in IOs. Examples include ASEAN in the International Labour Organization (ILO) concerning unemployment insurance issues or Mercosur supporting the initiative for a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary in the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Thus, the project draws on multilevel governance approaches to shed light on the phenomenon of the regionalization of multilateral negotiations. Based on a broad range of different ROs and IOs and based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods it analyzes how actively ROs participate in IO negotiations and how influential they are in shaping international norms. Are some ROs more active than others and are some IOs especially prone to RO activity and why? Under which conditions can ROs exert influence over international norms although they are not usually members of IOs?