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Notes
Chapter 1
1. Reich 1990 is the seminal study of public ideas in the context of domestic public
policy.
2. See also Risse-Kappen 1994, p. 209.
3. For social constructivism’s notion of intersubjective beliefs and its rejection of the
claim that all ideas are individual ideas or reducible to individual ideas, see Ruggie
1998a, pp. 16–22.
4. I use transnational to refer to regular interactions across national boundaries
where at least one actor is a nonstate agent. For this definition, see Risse-Kappen
1995a, p. 3.
5. This number includes treaties that are “dead letters” and some that really are
about issues primarily unconcerned with the environment.
6. For discussions of this and alternative definitions of international regimes, see
Levy et al. 1995, pp. 270–274; Hasenclever et al. 1997, pp. 8–22. For a now-classic
critique of this regime definition and of regime analysis more generally, see
Strange 1983.
7. The question whether regimes “matter” was first raised in a prominent way by
Krasner (1983, pp. 5–10).
8. To my knowledge, regime analysts have, apart from one brief mention, not paid
attention to public ideas. For the exception, see Keohane 1997.
9. For a conceptual discussion of public value, as distinct from private value, see
Moore 1995, pp. 27–56. For a comprehensive study of global public goods, see
Kaul et al. 1999.
10. For this definition of regime change, see Krasner 1983, p. 4. Changes in rules
and in decision-making procedures, but not in principles and norms, are changes
within regimes.
11. I use the word ‘good’ to indicate that it is a normative question whether a policy
is good or bad; the answer depends on the normative standard against which
the policy is compared.