Professional Networks in Transnational Governance

Leonard Seabrooke, Lasse Folke Henriksen

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781107181878
• eBook ISBN: 9781316859575
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Who controls how transnational issues are defined and treated? In recent decades professional coordination on a range of issues has been elevated to the transnational level. International organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and firms all make efforts to control these issues. This volume shifts focus away from looking at organizations and zooms in on how professional networks exert control in transnational governance. It contributes to research on professions and expertise, policy entrepreneurship, normative emergence, and change. The book provides a framework for understanding how professionals and organizations interact, and uses it to investigate a range of transnational cases. The volume also deploys a strong emphasis on methodological strategies to reveal who controls transnational issues, including network, sequence, field, and ethnographic approaches. Bringing together scholars from economic sociology, international relations, and organization studies, the book integrates insights from across fields to reveal how professionals obtain and manage control over transnational issues.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Part I Frames and Methods
• Part II Professionals and Non-Governmental Organizations
• Part III Professionals and International Organizations
• Part IV Professionals and Market Organizations
• References
• Index