Multilaterale Organisationen wachsen ständig. Dabei werden neue Mitgliedsländer stets sukzessive aufgenommen und nie auf einen Schlag. Die Aufnahme erfolgt in der Reihenfolge der bevorzugten Kooperation mit dem jeweiligen Land. Dieser Prozess bewirkt, daß eine multilaterale Organisation sich...

One of the most prominent characteristics of multilateral organizations is that they do not “spring forth full blown”; they grow. Although this is well known, relatively few attempts have been made to explain it at a general level or to explore its implications. In this paper we show why...

Recent research on compliance in international regulatory regimes has argued (1) that compliance is generally quite good; (2) that this high level of compliance has been achieved with little attention to enforcement; (3) that those compliance problems that do exist are best addressed as...