This theory note develops a theoretical approach which integrates the negative spillovers that international institutions often impose on each other into our thinking about their normative legitimacy. Our approach draws on the political philosophy of Rainer Forst which revolves around the right to justification. It suggests that regime complexes facilitate the breakup of institution-specific orders of justification by prompting invested actors to justify negative spillovers vis-a-vis each other. Thus, regime complexes enable more encompassing justifications of negative spillovers than stand-alone international institutions. Against this backdrop, we submit that the proliferation of regime complexes represents normative progress in global governance.

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让我们辩解！政权体系如何增强全球治理的规范合法性

该理论笔记发展了一种理论方法，将国际机构经常施加于彼此的负面溢出整合到我们对其规范合法性的思考中。我们的方法借鉴了赖纳·福斯特（Rainer Forst）的政治哲学，该哲学围绕着辩护权。它表明，政权复合体通过促使被投资方为相互之间的负面溢出进行辩解，从而促进了特定于制度的辩证顺序的破裂。因此，与独立的国际机构相比，政权体系更能带来负面溢出效应的更多理由。在这种背景下，我们认为，政权综合体的扩散代表了全球治理的规范性进展。