In 1982, the International Whaling Commission underwent a change which manifested itself in the form of a worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling. The principal purpose of this article is to explain the metamorphosis from whaling to preservation. As multi-faceted approaches have become more common among scholars of international politics, five different models of regime change are applied to this case. The model of economic processes views the change in the International Whaling Commission as a result of technological progress and economic growth within the global whaling sector; the model of internal contradictions shows how constituent contradictions together with new compositions of whaling interests eased the change; the model of overall power structure explains how the United States enforced the change; the model of international organization clarifies how other networks, norms and institutions affected the function of the International Whaling Commission, and thus facilitated the change; the model of bargaining and coalition-making demonstrates how coalitions combined with compromises among whaling interests set the rules which catalysed the change. In addition, this multi-faceted approach provides a complex perspective of the change in the International Whaling Commission.
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