Governance Transfer by Regional Organisations ─ Patching Together a Global Script

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.

Tanja A. Borzel is Professor of Political Science and Chair of European Integration at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. She coordinates the Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) 'The Transformative Power of Europe' and directs the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 'Europe and its Citizens'. Her research and teaching experience lies in the fields of institutional theory, European integration and comparative regionalism.

Vera van Hullen is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leuphana Universitat Luneburg, Germany. Her research interests include the role of regional organizations in regional and domestic politics in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly during the Arab Spring. From 2010 to 2013 she coordinated research on governance transfer by regional organizations worldwide under the framework of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 700) 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood' at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany.