Forest policies by regional regimes: a comparative bureaucracy-oriented analysis

森林作为世界政治中的一个问题，受全球和区域制度的支配。政治分析主要集中于全球森林相关制度的国际森林治理。此外，最近的一些研究也承认与森林有关的区域制度的相关性。但是，迄今为止，它们没有提供关于区域森林制度的详细经验分析，特别是关于在这些制度内制定的与森林有关的政策；这些政策的实质和力量；主要行为者对政策的影响；以及制度设计对政策的影响。这些研究需要将国际关系和政策分析方法结合起来。因此，本项目规定了下列目标：比较选定的区域制度的森林政策；比较区域制度设计；(3)基于关键行为者的利益和权力资源以及制度设计的关键属性来解释区域政权的森林政策。为了实现这些目标，项目采用了基于利益、以参与者为中心和面向官僚机构的方法。它将区域制度设计，区域官僚机构，成员国官僚机构和政治家以及国家和跨国私人行为者概念化为选定区域政权制定的森林相关政策背后的驱动因素。它利用官僚政治理论整合这些因素，并提出旨在解释区域政权的森林相关政策的假设。采用模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA）对以下区域机制产生定性和定量的比较结果：泛欧森林合作(森林欧洲，形式；MCPFE);欧盟森林治理；中非森林委员会；刚果盆地森林伙伴关系；亚马逊合作条约组织；东南亚国家联盟（东盟）；蒙特利尔进程；亚太经济合作组织；国际热带木材组织（ITTO）。工作计划包括(i)理论和方法的准备；（ii）关于制度设计和政策的定性和定量案头研究；（iii）初步综合和定量比较；（iv）对制度设计和政策进行定性深入的实地研究；最后综合比较分析，解释各区域政权的森林政策。

Forests as an issue in world politics are governed by global and regional regimes. Political analyses have mainly focused on international forest governance by global forest-related regimes. In addition a number of studies lately acknowledge the relevance of regional forest-related regimes. So far, however, they do not provide for detailed empirical analyses of regional forest-related regimes, especially regarding the forest-related policies developed within these regimes; the substance and strengths of these policies; the influence of key actors on the policies; as well as the influence of regime design on the policies. These research desiderates call for the combination of international relations and policy analysis approaches. Hence this project sets out the following objectives: (i) Comparing forest policies of selected regional regimes; (ii) Comparing regional regime designs; (iii) explaining forest policies of regional regimes based on the interests and power resources of key actors and on key properties of regime institutional design. For addressing these objectives the project applies an interest-based, actor-centered, and bureaucracy-oriented approach. It conceptualizes regional regime design, regional bureaucracies, member state bureaucracies and politicians as well as national and transnational private actors as driving factors behind forest-related policies developed by selected regional regimes. It integrates these factors using bureaucratic politics theory and develops hypotheses aiming to explain the forest-related policies of regional regimes. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) is employed for generating comparative qualitative and quantitative results on the following regional regimes: Pan-European forest cooperation (Forest Europe, form. MCPFE); EU forest governance; Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC); Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP); Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO); Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); The Montreal process; Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). The working plan includes (i) theoretical and methodological preparations, (ii) qualitative and quantitative desk studies on regime design and policies, (iii) a preliminary synthesis and quantified comparison; (iv) qualitative in-depth field studies on regime design and policies; and (v) a final synthesis on comparative analyses explaining the forest policies of the regional regimes.