Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations: Patching Together a Global Script (Governance and Limited Statehood)

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. 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Towards a Global Script? Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations....Pages 3-21 Mapping Governance Transfer by 12 Regional Organizations: A Global Script in Regional Colors....Pages 22-48 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Against All Odds: Strong Democratic Norms in the African Union....Pages 51-67 Writing the Script? ECOWAS’s Military Intervention Mechanism....Pages 68-83 Agent Run Amuck: The SADC Tribunal and Governance Transfer Roll-back....Pages 84-103 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Why Create a Regional Human Rights Regime? The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission for Human Rights....Pages 107-124 Just Leave Us Alone: The Arab League and Human Rights....Pages 125-140 A ‘Potemkin Village’? Governance Transfer by the CIS....Pages 141-156 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Ahead of the Curve: The OAS as a Pioneer of International Anti-Corruption Efforts....Pages 159-176 Beyond Free Trade: Accounting for Labor and Environmental Governance Standards in NAFTA....Pages 177-191 At Last: Protection and Promotion of Human Rights by Mercosur....Pages 192-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Too Little, Too Late? Governance Transfer and the Eastern Enlargement of the Council of Europe....Pages 211-226 Why Being Democratic Is Just Not Enough: The EU’s Governance Transfer....Pages 227-241 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 Patching Together a Global Script: The Demand for and Supply of Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations....Pages 245-259 Back Matter....Pages 260-298