Between Markets and States: the Global Governance and Transnational Networks

From regulators to social movements, networks are a means to organize and mobilize.  Networks of judges, parliamentarians or civil servants are proliferating.  In global governance, these networks are a mechanism for collaboration and joint decision making.  In global civil society, other networks can be a force of opposition or a source for a counter-discourse to the policies of governments and international organizations. The study of these public-private partnerships, international coalitions and private regimes exist and operate in the policy spaces between the formal structure of the state and the domain of the market.  Research in this area is at the interface of business studies, economics, politics and law. The course outlines how public and private networking is central to global and regional policy processes.