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What are the determinants of feasible regime Regional Air pollution Control Mechanisms? This article examines why two regions, Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia resulted in different outcomes in creating an international scheme like the regional environmental convention formed in Europe. To examine the similarities and differences in the three regions in their approaches to the air pollution matter, this article applies the interest-based theory and knowledge-based theory as an analytical framework to observe the impact of political leadership, scientific capabilities, and financial resources on regional environmental regimes.

The main findings of my research are that find the lack of framework in East Asia is attributable to a lack of political leadership owing to different interests and priorities between and within countries which resulted in a lack of coordination in Environment Policies and an impediment to the development of binding conventions. Also, the weak scientific capabilities due to the absence of the lack epistemic community and insufficient financial resources hindered countries from concerted efforts to build more effective regional air control regimes. 

In Southeast Asia, a political lack of leadership due to ASEAN's persistent policy of non-interference has hampered regional cooperation on transboundary environmental issues. Transboundary air pollution is a problem that is complicated by insufficient financing and the unavailability of an epistemic community required for the region's scientific capabilities.

This research is empirical as it adds to the existing literature by comparing three regions to find the variables that may affect the overall success of regional environmental cooperation in handling their respective problems. By observing political, scientific, and financial factors that may promote or impede regional environmental cooperation from the analytical framework of the interest-based and knowledge-based theory, which few have attempted, this paper will provide new insights into the determinants of regional air control mechanisms.

Ⅰ. Introduction	1
   1.1 Topic and Research Background	1
   1.2 Research objectives and questions	4

Ⅱ. Research Design	5
   2.1 Methodology	5
   2.2 Literature Review	6
   2.3 Analytical Framework	16
   2.4 Significance of Research	21

Ⅲ. Regional Air Control Mechanisms	22
   3.1 Europe	23
   3.2 Northeast Asia	26
   3.3 Southeast Asia	29

Ⅳ. Case Analysis	31
   4.1 Europe	31
      4.1.1 Political Leadership	31
      4.1.2 Scientific capability	34
      4.1.3 Financial resources	37

   4.2 Northeast Asia	39
      4.2.1 Political Leadership	39
      4.2.2 Scientific capability	40
      4.2.3 Financial resources	42

  4.3 Southeast Asia	44
     4.3.1 Political Leadership	44
     4.3.2 Scientific capability	50
     4.3.3 Financial resources	52

V. Conclusion	53
Bibliography	59