I definitely use it but stopped explaining it in a really detailed way, just the basics or very much linked to empirics. The students would get so hung up on the difference between norms and principles and so on. I think it’s a very helpful concept still for saying governance isn’t just about treaties, states, and organizations (and the readings break it down).
Best, Kate Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 10, 2021, at 6:10 PM, 'Susan Park' via gep-ed > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Good question Charlie! Yes, most the literature now is on global > environmental governance, including fragmentation, overlap, and > orchestration. Although the literature in development finance is about regime > complexes building on Raustiala and Victor (2004) on plant genetic resources. > I think regimes is still an important concept for breaking down what > constitutes activity (norms, rules and decision-making procedures) and how > the separate parts comprise the whole compared with non- regimes, regime > complexes, and global environmental governance. > > Best, > Susan > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Charles > Chester > Sent: Saturday, 9 October 2021 5:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [gep-ed] Question on using "international regime" in class.... > > Hi gep-eders, > > I’m at that point in the semester where I give my undergraduates a fairly > in-depth treatment of the terms “international regime” and “international > environmental regime.” I tell them that they need to know the basics of how > this terminology came about since I’ll be using the word “regime” for the > rest of the semester…. > > …but then it occurred to me that for the past few years, I’ve really not been > using the word regime at all. It just sort of faded away from my in-class > vocabulary in more of a fizz that a puff…not sure if this is good, bad, or > meaningless, but it made me wonder about how important it is for me to be > teaching “international regimes” (including elaboration of the consensus > definition, etc.) in a course on global environmental politics. I have some > nascent thoughts…but half of them lie in direct contradiction with the other > half….so I thought it would be helpful to get some general feedback on this. > Here’s my question: How much time do you spend teaching regime theory in your > GEP classes, and does the amount of time you give it reflect on the > importance of the concept? Apologies if I’m rehashing a previous conversation > on gep-ed that I missed. > > All best, > > Charlie Chester > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > EarthWeb.info • Native Land • he·him·his > BCI • Y2Y • TGMS • Brandeis • Fletcher > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/BFEFE76C-464A-480C-9E43-51812CABBBCC%40earthweb.info. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/SY4PR01MB6044B74B8C6FABC80E3CAB58DAB49%40SY4PR01MB6044.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/C02101AD-09FE-4C24-8202-7FE662DC4C9C%40berkeley.edu.
