
All Politics Is Global
Explaining International Regulatory Regimes
Daniel W. Drezner(Author)
Princeton University Press
Published on 25. February 2007
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-691-09641-4 (ISBN)
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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 in All 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.
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.
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"Rewarding... Mr. Drezner ... finds that the challenges of the future will be increasingly transnational. As globalization intensifies, the rewards for coordination will increase as well."--The Economist "Important... Drezner shows that it is control of their own large domestic markets that give major states the ability to wield power in the global economy. His main contribution, however, is to explode a popular notion of globalization and thereby to set an agenda for the study of global regulatory politics."--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign AffairsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Illustrations
12 tables.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-09641-4 (9780691096414)
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Person
Daniel W. Drezner is Associate Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is the author of "U.S. Trade Strategy" and "The Sanctions Paradox". He has published widely in scholarly journals as well as the "New York Times" and the "Wall Street Journal". He keeps a daily Weblog at www.danieldrezner.com.
Content
List of Tables ix Preface xi Glossary of Acronyms xix PART I: THEORY CHAPTER ONE: Bringing the Great Powers Back In 3 CHAPTER TWO: A Theory of Regulatory Outcomes 32 CHAPTER THREE: A Typology of Governance Processes 63 PART II: PRACTICE CHAPTER FOUR: The Global Governance of the Internet 91 CHAPTER FIVE: Club Standards and International Finance 119 CHAPTER SIX: Rival Standards and Genetically Modified Organisms 149 CHAPTER SEVEN: The "Semi-Deviant" Case: TRIPS and Public Health 176 CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusions and Speculations 204 Index 221