The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies: New Challenges for Governance in Europe

Three Converging Literatures of Transnationalization and the Varieties of Transnationalization: Introduction.- Transnational Integration Regimes as Development Programmes.- From Employee Governance to Corporate Governance: Transnational Forces and the Polish Corporate Governance Debates Since the 1980s.- The Domestic Regulation of Transnational Labour Markets: EU Enlargement and the Politics of Labour Migration in Switzerland and Ireland.- The Transnationalization of Change in Economic Institutions: The Case of Industrial Standards Regulations in Ukraine.- The Politics of the Competition State: The Agents and Mechanisms of State Transnationalization in Central and Eastern Europe.- Transnationalization and Domestic Policy-Making Processes: Electricity Market Reform in Belgium and Switzerland.- Transnationalization and the Georgian State: Myth or Reality?.- Transnational Strategies of Civil Society Organizations Striving for Equality and Nondiscrimination: Exchanging Information on New EU Directives, Coalition Strategies and Strategic Litigation.- National and European? Protesting the Lisbon Agenda and the Services Directive in the European Union.- Transnational Governance of Labour Standards: Insights from the Clothing Industry in Turkey.- Transnationalization and Its Governance – Actorhood and Power in the Shadow of Global Crisis.

Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we are witnessing an ever quickening dissolution of the boundaries between internal and external actors and the critical factors for understanding domestic institutional change. In the transnationalization of the economies of Western and Eastern Europe, international cross-ownership networks are playing a growing, and at times dominant role in domestic economies. These economies are governed by states that are increasingly sharing larger and larger parts of their regulative powers with non-domestic actors.
These regulations are contested by civil societies that are increasingly based on networks of interlinked domestic and external NGOs. This is an emerging research agenda extending earlier research on transnationalization, which focused on the supra-national level, and it goes beyond the Europeanization literature that focused on externally induced or imposed change in domestic institutions. This book brings together in one volume the study of transnationalization in three institutional fields: civil society, state and the economy and extends the research of processes of transnationalization to evolving new democracies and emerging market economies. This book should be of interest to scholars and students in the field of political science, public policy, European studies, and international relations.

Examines domestic institutional change in processes of transnationalization at the level of the economies, states and civil societies Goes beyond Europeanization literature that focuses on externally induced change Selects empirical research in the field of transnationalization that includes Eastern Europe Provides up-to-date empirical research with methodological rigor Combines a comparative politics approach with international relations Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras