By Robert O. Keohane and David G. Victor
- There is no integrated, comprehensive regime governing efforts to limit the extent of climate change. Instead, there is a regime complex: a loosely coupled set of specific regimes. We describe the regime complex for climate change and seek to explain it, using functional, strategic, and organizational arguments. It is likely that such a regime complex will persist: efforts to build an effective, legitimate, and adaptable comprehensive regime are unlikely to succeed.
Keohane, R.O. and D.G. Victor (2010). "The Regime Complex for Climate Change." Discussion Paper 10-33, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Jan 2010.
