Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations: Patching Together a Global Script
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Tanja A. Börzel, Vera van Hüllen – 2015
This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood. The comparison of 12 regional organizations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East shows that regional organizations have not only institutionalized commitments to human rights, democracy, the rule of law, and the fight against corruption. They have also developed more detailed prescriptions of these 'good' governance standards and established similar instruments to promote and protect them in their member states. The authors argue that a global script of governance transfer by regional organizations is emerging. Rather than developing from a central model, however, this is patched together by regional and national actors who are translating governance standards and instruments into their local context.
Table of contents:
- Prelims pages i–vi
- Figures and Tables pages vii–vii
- Preface pages viii–ix
- Contributors pages x–xii
- Abbreviations pages xiii–xvi
- Part I. Introduction pages 1–2
- Chapter 1. Towards a Global Script? Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations pages 3–21 Tanja A. Börzel and Vera van Hüllen
- Chapter 2. Mapping Governance Transfer by 12 Regional Organizations: A Global Script in Regional Colors pages 22–48 Tanja A. Börzel and Sören Stapel
- Part II. Africa pages 49–50
- Chapter 3. Against All Odds: Strong Democratic Norms in the African Union pages 51–67 Julia Leininger
- Chapter 4. Writing the Script? ECOWAS’s Military Intervention Mechanism pages 68–83 Christof Hartmann and Kai Striebinger
- Chapter 5. Agent Run Amuck: The SADC Tribunal and Governance Transfer Roll-back pages 84–104 Merran Hulse and Anna van der Vleuten
- Part III. Middle East and Asia pages 105–106
- Chapter 6. Why Create a Regional Human Rights Regime? The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission for Human Rights pages 107–124 Anja Jetschke
- Chapter 7. Just Leave Us Alone: The Arab League and Human Rights pages 125–140 Vera van Hüllen
- Chapter 8. A ‘Potemkin Village’? Governance Transfer by the CIS pages 141–156 Alessandra Russo
- Part IV. The Americas pages 157–158
- Chapter 9. Ahead of the Curve: The OAS as a Pioneer of International Anti-Corruption Efforts pages 159–176 Mathis Lohaus
- Chapter 10. Beyond Free Trade: Accounting for Labor and Environmental Governance Standards in NAFTA pages 177–191 Francesco Duina
- Chapter 11. At Last: Protection and Promotion of Human Rights by Mercosur pages 192–208 Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann
- Part V. Europe pages 209–210
- Chapter 12. Too Little, Too Late? Governance Transfer and the Eastern Enlargement of the Council of Europe pages 211–226 Andrea Gawrich
- Chapter 13. Why Being Democratic Is Just Not Enough: The EU’s Governance Transfer pages 227–242 Vera van Hüllen and Tanja A. Börzel
- Part VI. Conclusions pages 243–244
- Chapter 14. Patching Together a Global Script: The Demand for and Supply of Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations pages 245–259 Tanja A. Börzel and Vera van Hüllen
- References pages 260–289
- Index pages 290–298