ABSTRACT
The security regime associated with the governance of Berlin is a model of conflict routinization. That one rarely reads of this city is indicative of the degree to which conflicts that once brought the superpowers and their allies to the brink of war have come to be managed successfully. The term regime is more commonly used to refer to the domestic constitutional order of a given state—the set of rules by which politics are played. When the term regime is used in an international context it refers to a set of rules voluntarily established and voluntarily maintained by states to govern their relations in a given issue area. Just as there are well-established rules and procedures for Western access to East Berlin, there are also rules and procedures to govern Western allied access by the land and by air.
