Credits:3 pts.
Instructor permission required before registration. This seminar explores the emerging empirical/positivist literature on transnational actors and processes. We examine how different scholars define and conceptualize transnational actors and private authority, and its potential to transform (or not) the character of the international state system. We also focus on how non-state actors contribute to the production and maintenance of order in the international system through interest-group mechanisms, instances of express or implicit delegation of regulatory tasks (the privatization of governance), and various types of strategic behavior within existing regulatory frameworks. Particular emphasis will be given to understanding the challenges associated with the regulation of private actors and conduct across international borders, and implications for the development and diffusion of rules and norms of behavior.
