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Why are multilateral institutions absent from some areas of international relations? Governments have not concluded regulatory policy agreements on tactical nuclear weapons & small arms control, deforestation, information privacy, & other transnational issues. The absence of regimes in such policy arenas is an empirical phenomenon with considerable theoretical & policy implications. Yet, existing scholarship on global governance largely ignores the instances in which such institutions do not emerge. This essay develops a research agenda to extend & strengthen regime theory through analysis of non regimes. We articulate the concept, draw a typology of nonregimes, discuss the contributions that non regime studies can make to IR theory, outline methodological approaches to pursue the proposed agenda, & highlight a priori theoretical considerations to guide such research. Six illustrative cases in the realms of arms control, environmental management, & international political economy are described & used to make preliminary observations of factors that impede regime formation. Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.