Over the past several decades scholars have intensively debated what factors drive globalization. Answers have ranged from the emergence of the information society and the global economy to value-conflicts embedded in different civilizations. A different yet closely related question is who is...

Regulatory networks and other forms of networked governance have come to play an increasingly important role in what is now often referred to as global governance. Generally, most theories of global governance involve some kind of claim of a decline of the role of nation-states in international...