Cooperation and international regimes

Introduction
• Cooperation is based on International Regimes (IRegs)
• One way to set up an international regime is through a hegemony => hegemonic actor impose the IReg on others (Drulák, Teorie mezinárodních vztahů, 2003: 78-79)
• Cooperation and hegemony are not in opposition, in fact, hegemony is based on an asymmetrical cooperation
• The author anticipates an and of American hegemony
• BUT he argues that it doesn’t mean an and of cooperation
• Nonhegemonic cooperation is possible, and it can be facilitated by international regimes
• Difference between IRegs’ creation and maintenance
1. Creation - when interests are sufficiently important possible without hegemony
2. Maintenance - easier than creation
• THEREFORE cooperation is possible after hegemony for:
1. IRegs can be created without hegemony
2. maintenance of existing IRegs is less demanding than those required for their creation
• aim of chapter 4 => to analyze terms “cooperation” and “international regimes”
• these two concept explain: how patterns of rule-guided policy cooperation emerge, maintain themselves, and decay