Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Towards a Global Script? Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

      • Tanja A. Börzel, Vera van Hüllen

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   3. Mapping Governance Transfer by 12 Regional Organizations: A Global Script in Regional Colors

      • Tanja A. Börzel, Sören Stapel

      Pages 22-48

3. Africa

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Against All Odds: Strong Democratic Norms in the African Union

      • Julia Leininger

      Pages 51-67

   3. Writing the Script? ECOWAS’s Military Intervention Mechanism

      • Christof Hartmann, Kai Striebinger

      Pages 68-83

   4. Agent Run Amuck: The SADC Tribunal and Governance Transfer Roll-back

      • Merran Hulse, Anna van der Vleuten

      Pages 84-103

4. Middle East and Asia

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Why Create a Regional Human Rights Regime? The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission for Human Rights

      • Anja Jetschke

      Pages 107-124

   3. Just Leave Us Alone: The Arab League and Human Rights

      • Vera van Hüllen

      Pages 125-140

   4. A ‘Potemkin Village’? Governance Transfer by the CIS

      • Alessandra Russo

      Pages 141-156

5. The Americas

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Ahead of the Curve: The OAS as a Pioneer of International Anti-Corruption Efforts

      • Mathis Lohaus

      Pages 159-176

   3. Beyond Free Trade: Accounting for Labor and Environmental Governance Standards in NAFTA

      • Francesco Duina

      Pages 177-191

   4. At Last: Protection and Promotion of Human Rights by Mercosur

      • Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann

      Pages 192-208

6. Europe

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Too Little, Too Late? Governance Transfer and the Eastern Enlargement of the Council of Europe

      • Andrea Gawrich

      Pages 211-226

   3. Why Being Democratic Is Just Not Enough: The EU’s Governance Transfer

      • Vera van Hüllen, Tanja A. Börzel

      Pages 227-241

7. Conclusions

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This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood. The authors argue that a global script of governance transfer by regional organizations is emerging, where regional and national actors are adapting governance standards and instruments to their local context.

• governance
• democracy
• human rights
• corruption
• rule of law
• transfer
• diffusion
• global script
• (comparative) regionalism
• regional organizations
• African Union (AU)
• Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
• Southern African Development Community (SADC)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• League of Arab States (LAS)
• Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• Common Market of the South (Mercado Común del Sur
• Mercosur)
• ASEAN
• environment
• government
• intervention
• Mercosur
• NAFTA
• Nation
• organization

“This edited volume represents a successful attempt to systematically investigate how and under what conditions regional organizations (ROs) transfer legitimate governance institutions in their Member States or third countries. … This stimulating and very informative book is thus strongly recommended for all academics and students interested in global and comparative regionalism, diffusion and the evolution of (good) governance institutions in and outside Europe.” (Johannes Muntschick, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (5), 2016)

• Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

  Tanja A. Börzel

• Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany

  Vera Hüllen

Francesco Duina, University of British Columbia, USA Andrea Gawrich, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany Christof Hartmann, University Duisburg Essen, Germany Merran Hulse, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Anja Jetschke, University of Göttingen, Germany Julia Leininger, German Development Institute (DIE), Germany Mathis Lohaus, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Germany Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Alessandra Russo, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa Sören Stapel, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Germany Kai Striebinger, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Germany Anna van der Vleuten, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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