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

在过去几十年中，各国在国际层面上协调和管理政治问题的方式发生了深刻的变化。在冷战结束以来许多问题领域的地缘政治转变的驱动下，新的政府间安排已经建立，其职能与先前存在的国际机构重叠或相互补充。事实上，今天全球治理的所有领域都是由一系列“重叠和部分重叠的、无等级的机构来管理一个特定的问题领域”。在这些复合体中，国家可以在一系列竞争权威的机构中进行选择。由于政权复合体的密度越来越大，许多以前的核心和无可争议的传统机构今天发现自己处于与其他多边安排进行机构竞争的状态。然而，我们对这些新成立的国际组织一旦进入先前存在的政权复合体的实际意图和战略知之甚少。这些新成立的机构参与者何时以及如何决定与传统机构合作，他们何时决定竞争？为了在他们的政权复合体中站稳脚跟，新创建的竞争对手机构采取了什么策略？这些策略在何时以及如何随问题和时间而变化？以组织，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对手机构在时间和空间上的机构间政治，为这些问题提供经验和理论答案。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，这些数据将利用国际组织（IO）的开放和按需提供的数据以及与IO官员和成员国政府官员的访谈。

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.