서강대학교

초록/요약

The aim of this thesis is to examine the future prospect for the Northeast Asian regime formation by focusing on the role of actors in the regime formation ？hat are the roles and the relations of the actors in the process of regime formation and what are the factors that influence the states？ behaviors. It is widely accepted that non-state actors have played important role in the process of environmental regime formation. However, case studies show that state actors are still the key to the regime formation because they are the main body of decision-making and implementing, which are critical for the regime success. Non-state actors can just influence the state behavior by helping states define and calculate their national interest incorporated into the regime formation. According to regime theorists, there are three main factors that determine regime formation ？ power, interest, and knowledge. In regime formation, interest is the key to determining state actors behaviors. And power and knowledge can influence state actors to recognize their national interests incorporated into the regime formation. In this sense, all these three factors should be examined for the analysis. Contrary to the European Acid rain regime case, in Northeast Asia, there is no leadership country which can initiate the regime formation and lead the regime development. Lack of knowledge and matured civil movement can explain the absence of the leadership country. At the moment the urgent task for the countries to promote the cooperation is to establish institutional vehicle to stir up the regional environmental initiatives. Problem is that without the clear cost-benefit calculation of the cooperation, no country might take the leading role at this moment. In this sense the role of non-states actors such as international organizations, expert groups, NGOs imperative for helping state actors to define and calculate their national interests.