Beyond the formal intergovernmental organization

Global governance today encompasses a tangle of institutions of different compositions and types. While nation-states and the formal intergovernmental organizations they create remain important actors in global governance, other institutional forms, including private transnational regulatory organiz...

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Autores: Vandendriessche, Marie|||0000-0002-6567-6496, Jordana, Jacint|||0000-0003-2700-6747, Marx, Axel|||0000-0003-1474-0539
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:325180
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/325180
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.4337/9781035302581.00011
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:Global governance
Institutional diversity
Institutional complexity
Regime complex
Global governance evolution
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Sumario:Global governance today encompasses a tangle of institutions of different compositions and types. While nation-states and the formal intergovernmental organizations they create remain important actors in global governance, other institutional forms, including private transnational regulatory organizations, publicprivate partnerships, and informal intergovernmental organizations are proliferating and contributing to increasing institutional complexity. Over the past two decades, a significant scholarly effort has developed to better conceptualize the shape and drivers of this complexity and understand its implications. This chapter focuses on the frameworks and models that can be used to study the global governance of specific issue areas, including regime complexes, global governance complexes, hybrid institutional complexes, global governance architectures, and supercluster complexes. The chapter starts by clarifying the available frameworks, their defining features, and key debates. This discussion includes reflections on the main dimensions that can be used to classify and analyze complexes of institutions governing an issue area, and some of the insights that have been gained through research. A final section focuses on one of the main defining features of global governance through complexes of institutions - their propensity to continuously evolve - by examining drivers and processes of evolution, as well as the results of these developments.