All politics is global : explaining international regulatory regimes / Daniel W. Drezner ; with a new afterword by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drezner, Daniel W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Government policy.

Globalization.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

With a New afterword by the author

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner argues that this view is wrong. Despite globalization, states--especially the great powers--still dominate international regulatory regimes, and the regulatory goals of states are driven by their domestic interests. As Drezner shows, state size still matters. The great powers--the United States and the European Union--remain the key players in writing global regulations, and their power is due to the size of their internal economic markets. If they agree, there will be effective global governance. If they don't agree, governance will be fragmented or ineffective. And, paradoxically, the most powerful sources of great-power preferences are the least globalized elements of their economies. Testing this revisionist model of global regulatory governance on an unusually wide variety of cases, including the Internet, finance, genetically modified organisms, and intellectual property rights, Drezner shows why there is such disparity in the strength of international regulations.

Contents:

Bringing the great powers back in

A theory of regulatory outcomes

A typology of governance processes

The global governance of the internet

Club standards and international finance

Rival standards and genetically modified organisms

The "semi-deviant" case : trips and public health.

pt. 1. Theory

pt. 2. Practice.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612157561

9781282157569

1282157566

9781400828630

1400828635

OCLC:

436045297