(Transnational) private actors have a significant role in ‘global governance’. But their influence varies significantly, both across time and issues. The major challenge for theorizing about non-state actors in world politics is not only to demonstrate that they matter but explain where,...

Transnational institutions, such as the Global Compact and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs), commit multinational companies to human rights and social standards on a voluntary basis. The governance literature has identified a credible ‘shadow of hierarchy' cast by a...

Eastern enlargement has been celebrated as the success story of the "transformative power of Europe”. Indeed, accession to the EU significantly reinforced the processes of democratic transition and socio-economic modernization in Central and Eastern Europe. So it had for Spain and Portugal 20...

This paper assesses the future of international governance and norms in the contest for global leadership. It evaluates the impact of China’s rise and the prospects and limits of transatlantic cooperation given the internal and external challenges besetting the United States and Europe. Part I...

(Transnational) private actors have a significant role in ‘global governance’. But their influence varies significantly, both across time and issues. The major challenge for theorizing about non-state actors in world politics is not only to demonstrate that they matter but explain where,...