Transnational Governance in the making – Regulatory Fields and their Dynamics.1

On an experiential basis, many of us feel the impact of a “transnationalizing” world. What a European consumer gets when she buys chocolate in her local store has been defined and standardized by the European Commission. A German university professor is increasingly expected to belong to a transnational peer community and to adapt to career development standards highly at odds with German academic traditions. Companies around the world are going through multiple certification processes and are bound to various categories of standards – efficiency, quality, ethical or environmental ones.