All Politics Is Global

by Drezner, Daniel W.

• ISBN13: 9780691096421
• ISBN10: 0691096422
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-18
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

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 inAll 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.

Author Biography

Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Glossary of Acronyms	p. xix
Theory
Bringing the Great Powers Back In	p. 3
A Theory of Regulatory Outcomes	p. 32
A Typology of Governance Processes	p. 63
Practice
The Global Governance of the Internet	p. 91
Club Standards and International Finance	p. 119
Rival Standards and Genetically Modified Organisms	p. 149
The "Semi-Deviant" Case: TRIPS and Public Health	p. 176
Conclusions and Speculations	p. 204
Afterword to the Paperback Edition	p. 221
Index	p. 231
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