Abstract: The European Union, like many other international organizations and governments, committed itself during the 1990s to the mainstreaming of gender issues across all policy areas at all stages in the policy process. Nonetheless, more than a decade after the Union’s initial commitment,...

Abstract: I first examine new governance as the compound of multilevel and network governance.  I structure its main claims around the principles of partnership and flexibility, which serve to demote the notions of stateness, publicity, legalism, and hierarchy.  I use the Open Method of...

Abstract: The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is understood as an important new "instrument" in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) "toolbox", designed to respond to the contemporary security environment as well as to overcome the inaction and hesitancy of the past....

Abstract: In domestic legal systems, public authorities have incorporated rules first established by private bodies for a long time. In the global arena, public regulatory regimes increasingly connect with private ones. International intergovernmental organizations, transnational regulatory...