International Regulatory Cooperation in Hard Politics

Abstract

The internationalisation of markets and economic integration require common regulatory strategies and institutional arrangements to avoid trade impeding effects, loopholes and negative spillovers. International organisations are set up to achieve regulatory coordination among member states. In Europe, the EU Commission developed and promoted "new governance" regulatory regimes to harmonise standards and regulations and to enforce multi-level regulatory cooperation in the common market. However, regulatory cooperation can be undermined by stratetegic concerns, the persistence of national interests, and competition among regulatory authorities. Domestic regulatory authorities are confronted with different institutional endowments, administrative traditions, market structures and business culture. To tackle this issue, this panel will be devoted to the presentation of papers that discuss the establishment, development, functioning and effectiveness of transnational regulatory regimes in areas where international regulatory cooperation is considered particularly challenging, because they involve strategic concerns or strong national interests, such as energy, financial regulation and environmental protection. Under which conditions is multi-level cooperation possible (or not) in such areas?

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