Informal International Regimes : A Case Study of the Arctic Council
Journal: Lauda (University of Lapland)
Year: 2019

Institutions—understood as sets of rights, rules, principles, and decision-making procedures that give rise to social practices, assign roles to the participants in these processes, and guide interactions among the participants—are prominent features of governance systems at all levels of social organizations. Regimes constitute a subset of institutions specialized to address functionally defined topics and/or spatially defined areas and this dissertation studies the Arctic Council (AC) as a cas