[MUSIC] In this video, we're going to talk about an international regime as a phenomenon of international relations. There is a longstanding academic debate regarding the interpretation of the notion of the regime. The debate was started by Steven Krasner in 1983, when he published the following definition. Eyesight, an international regime, is a set of implicit and explicit principles, norms, rules and decision making procedures around which actor's expectations converge in a given area of international relations. End of quote. The principles and norms of an international regime are relatively most stable than its rules and procedures. We can describe principles and norms as fundamentals of a regime. Rules and the procedures, by contrast, serve as shock absorbing mechanisms for a regime and can be used to adapt the regime to the change in the environment in which it exists. The participants of the regime have certain expectations. They will be ready to comply with the obligations under some international agreement, as long as the benefits from participating in the regime will satisfy the national interests. International regime regulate the behavior of the participants in the certain area of international relations. So, participating in the regime, the participant may compensate, or mitigate the negative effects of the international environment, or enhance its own political influence and political power. International regimes exist in an international environment. So, they are not static constructions. They can appear, stagnate or decline. They can be developed, weakened, eroded or strengthened. Traditionally, international regimes are established by governments by the state parties to the agreement. However, nongovernmental actors can also participate in the regime and can frame it. Any international regime is a system that consists of several elements and is influenced by the environment in which it exists. So what is the reason for participating in an international regime? Basically, the State may participate in a regime because of several reasons, and the more common reasons include the following. Firstly, There might be a problem that can be tackled more effectively through multilateral cooperation than by a unilateral action. Secondly, long-term cooperation is possible and preferable. Thirdly, it is possible to guarantee relative transparency concerning the intentions and capacities of the states that participate in the regime. And it is possible to guarantee that state parties to the regime will make everything possible to follow the obligations, regarding the norm of good faith and reciprocity. So an international regime may be described as a system that consists of several elements. And the more developed and mature the regime is, the more elements construct its architecture. A global, mature regime may include sub-regimes, both bilateral and multilateral. The architecture of the regime may include various forms of bilateral and multilateral calculation, namely diplomatic interactions, confidence, and transparency measures, verification procedures, export control measures, enforcement procedures and adaptation mechanisms. These combinations of elements create a stable network of interdependency. In the next video, we will discover how a regime functions.