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The key question this volume is addressing concerns the role of transnational actors in processes of democratisation in post-communist Europe which, according to the editors, is ‘the dark matter that held the various aspects of post-communist transition together in Central and East Europe’ (2008, 6). The authors represented in this volume, as well as the editors, are scholars that have already ...

Transnational Transformations of Governance Transnational Transformations of Governance

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The New Lex Mercatoria and Transnational Governance

Over the past four decades, the transnational business community has successfully built a private system of transnational governance: the new Lex Mercatoria. The actors who operate this system – firms, their lawyers, international arbitrators, and legal academics – have evolved, and use, ‘a-national’ principles of contract and a system of private ‘courts’ to organize and regulate cross-border c...

Legitimacy and Compliance in Transnational Governance

Power, rule, and legitimacy have always been core concerns of political science. In the 1970s, when governability appeared to be problematic, legitimacy was discussed both in the context of policy research and by critics of the capitalist state. More recently interest turned to governance beyond the nation-state. The legitimacy of transnational (i.e., European and international) organizations, ...

Globalization, Transnational Corporations and the Future of Global Governance