COALITION-FORMATION IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS AND THEROLE OF INSTITUTIONS

The aim of this paper is to discuss the role played by international i nstitutions in achieving effective International Environmental Agreeme nts. We emphasise the strategic nature of environmental negotiations a nd use a game theoretic model of coalitional bargaining to illustrate the main issues. We argue that international institutions can interven e in the framing of the strategic interactions between countries (i.e. setting the rules of the negotiation game) and can influence the actu al agreement reached when different outcomes of the negotiation game c an be equilibria. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.