International Cooperation as Interagency Cooperation

Examples from Wildlife and Habitat Preservation

Bibliographic Data

ID6317305
AuthorsRobert Pahre (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume7
Issue4
Pages883-899
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592709991861
OpenAlexW2026722665
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited59

Cooperation between two agencies presents much the same problem whether these agencies are found in different countries or in the same country. This similarity is generally overlooked because the issues over which agencies negotiate often differ—defense and trade policy at the international level, transportation or land use at the domestic level. Demonstrating the analytical similarity of international cooperation to domestic interagency cooperation requires holding issue area constant while allowing interstate and intrastate units to vary. To do this, I focus on cooperation over wildlife and habitat preservation at the domestic and international levels in the US and Canada. I explain this variation in cooperation in a simple theory in which agency goals and certain features of species interact. Variation between successful and unsuccessful cooperation in this issue area is governed solely by characteristics of the species and agency goals in each management unit, and does not depend on whether a problem is “international” or “domestic.” For scholars who think in terms of nation-states interacting in an anarchic international system, this points to a very different unit of analysis. For those who emphasize the domestic politics of international cooperation, this moves us away from executives constrained by legislatures to look at sub-units within each executive

Agency (philosophy · Business · Economics · Environmental resource management · International trade · Legislature · Negotiation · Political science · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · Variation (astronomy · Wildlife · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Forest Management and Policy · Law · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology

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