What is the effect of delegation to an agreement executor, such as an international organization (IO), on the success of conventional arms control (CAC) agreements in Europe? Arms control agreements have taken different approaches to delegation. The extent of state delegation to treaty executors has ranged from nonexistent to substantial. Previous studies have not looked at delegation as an independent variable of CAC agreement success. This article applies a sum score methodology assessing nine variables in a dataset of nineteen CAC agreements in Europe over the past 100 years. There is a low correlation between delegation and CAC agreement success, though the data suggests that third-party state and IO involvement are the most significant variables related to success. This article proposes that high delegation to an IO with third-party state participation will increase the likelihood that a future CAC agreement between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia could succeed.

授权给协议执行者（例如国际组织 ( IO )）对欧洲常规军备控制 ( CAC ) 协议的成功有何影响？军备控制协议采取了不同的授权方式。国家对条约执行者的授权范围从不存在到实质性。之前的研究并未将授权视为CAC协议成功的自变量。本文采用总分方法来评估过去 100 年来欧洲19 个CAC协议的数据集中的 9 个变量。尽管数据表明第三方国家和IO参与是与成功相关的最重要变量，但授权与CAC协议成功之间的相关性较低。本文提出，向具有第三方国家参与的国际组织进行高度授权将增加北大西洋公约组织与俄罗斯之间未来CAC协议取得成功的可能性。