1st Edition

The Spectrum of International Institutions An Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Global Governance

Edited By Kenneth W Abbott, Duncan J Snidal Copyright 2021
302 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book collects and integrates Abbott and Snidal’s influential scholarship on indirect global governance, with a new analytical introduction that probes the role of indirect governance techniques in the universe of global governance arrangements. The volume presents the Governance Triangle, a now widely-used figure that demonstrates and helps to assess the proliferation of private and... Read more

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Institutional Diversity and Indirect Governance

Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal

Part II. Private Institutions and Voluntary Standards

Chapter 2. International "Standards" and International Governance

Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal

Chapter 3. The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards Institutions and the Shadow of the State

Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal

Part III. Orchestration of Public and Private Institutions

Chapter 4. Strengthening International Regulation through Transnational New Governance: Overcoming the Orchestration Deficit

Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal

Chapter 5. Orchestration: Global Governance through Intermediaries

Kenneth W. Abbott, Philipp Genschel, Duncan Snidal, and Bernhard Zangl

Chapter 6. Orchestrating Global Governance: From Empirical Findings to Theoretical Implications

Kenneth W. Abbott, Philipp Genschel, Duncan Snidal, and Bernhard Zangl

Chapter 7. Two Logics of Indirect Governance: Delegation and Orchestration

Kenneth W. Abbott, Philipp Genschel, Duncan Snidal, and Bernhard Zangl

Part IV. Beyond Orchestration: Governing Through Public and Private Intermediaries

Chapter 8. Theorizing Regulatory Intermediaries: The RIT Model

Kenneth W. Abbott, David Levi-Faur, and Duncan Snidal

Chapter 9. Competence versus Control: The Governor’s Dilemma

Kenneth W. Abbott, Philipp Genschel, Duncan Snidal, and Bernhard Zangl

Biography

Kenneth W. Abbott is Jack E. Brown Chair in Law and Professor of Global Studies Emeritus, Arizona State University.

Duncan Snidal is Professorial Fellow and Professor of International Relations at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

"Kenneth Abbott and Duncan Snidal are masters at showing the variety of institutional forms in the contemporary world: from formal to informal governance, hard to soft law, international to transnational organizations. They are attuned to agency and how it varies, depending on agents’ positions relative to one another, and they have coined key phrases, including the "governance triangle" and "orchestration." For a sophisticated understanding of contemporary global governance, The Spectrum of International Institutions is essential reading." - Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs Emeritus, Princeton University, USA.

"Abbott and Snidal are arguably the two most influential thinkers about institutional design in world politics. This volume brings together an authoritative "Best of" collection of their recent works. Moreover, it links the pieces together into a whole that is more than the sum of its parts, and in doing so shows how magisterial this work is." - Michael Zürn, Director of the Global Governance research unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center; Professor of International Relations, Free University Berlin.

"For three decades, Kenneth Abbott and Duncan Snidal have been both the leading team of interdisciplinary international-law-and-international-relations scholars, and the most astute students of the ever-growing complexity of global governance. This volume brings together their most important and insightful recent scholarship, illuminating the rise of private transnational governance, the proliferation of "soft-law" and informal regimes, and efforts to "orchestrate" governance. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand global governance in the 21st century." - Mark Pollack, Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair, Temple University.