Transnational Integration Regimes as Development Programs

Transnational Mutual Recognition Regimes: Governance without Global Government

Regulatory regimes and state cost containment programs.

Migrants as Transnational Development Agents: An Inquiry into the Newest Round of the Migration–Development Nexus

The new enthusiasm, sometimes described as the ‘new mantra’ (Kapur, 2004), around migration and development hinges on a number of strong claims. They can be summarised in the statement that the fl ows of money, knowledge and universal ideas – called remittances – can have a positive effect on what is called development in the countries of emigration. The fi rst claim is that fi nancial remittan...

Transnational Information Systems: Development and Management Issues

An increasing number of transnational information systems (TIS) is being developed and is operational. This paper describes a study that attempted to gather information from an empirical setting as a basis for theory building. The authors have studied three cases in an attem t to take some early steps towards guidelines for the development and management of TIS. General conclusions based on the...

Sanctions as revelation regimes

Sanctioning in the face of uncertainty has been investigated from the perspective of signaling models, in which an informed target sends a signal and the sanctioner decides to sanction or not. As the more powerful power, however, the sanctioner could take the lead rather than react to the action of the target. Borrowing from contract theory, I present a new approach to the sanctioning of a targ...