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This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood. The authors argue that a global script of governance transfer by regional organizations is emerging, where regional and national actors are adapting governance standards and instruments to their local context.

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PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Towards a Global Script? Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations; Tanja A. Börzel and Vera van Hüllen 2. A Global Script in Regional Colours: Mapping Governance Transfer by Twelve Regional Organizations; Tanja A. Börzel and Sören Stapel PART II: Africa 3. Against All Odds: Strong Democratic Norms in the African Union ; Julia Leininger 4. Writing the Script? ECOWAS´ Military Intervention Mechanism; Christof Hartmann and Kai Striebinger 5. Agent Run Amuck: The SADC Tribunal and Governance Transfer Rollback; Meran Hulse and Anna van der Vleuten PART III: MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA 6. Why Create a Regional Human Rights Regime? The ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission for Human Rights; Anja Jetschke 7. Just Leave Us Alone: The Arab League and Human Rights; Vera van Hüllen 8. A ´Potemkin Village´? Governance Transfer by the CIS; Alessandra Russo PART IV: THE AMERICAS 9. Ahead of the Curve: The OAS as a Pioneer of International Anti-Corruption Efforts; Mathis Lohaus 10 . Beyond Free Trade: Accounting for Labour and Environmental Governance Standards in NAFTA; Franceso Duina 11. At Last: The Protection and Promotion of Human Rights by Mercosur; Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann PART V: EUROPE 12. Too Little, Too Late? Governance Transfer and the Eastern Enlargement of the Council of Europe; Andrea Gawrich 13. Why Being Democratic is Just Not Enough: The EU´s Governance Transfer; Vera van Hüllen and Tanja A. Börzel PART IV: CONCLUSIONS 14. Patching Together a Global Script: The Demand for and Supply of Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations?; Tanja A. Börzel and Vera van Hüllen

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"This edited volume represents a successful attempt to systematically investigate how and under what conditions regional organizations (ROs) transfer legitimate governance institutions in their Member States or third countries. ... This stimulating and very informative book is thus strongly recommended for all academics and students interested in global and comparative regionalism, diffusion and the evolution of (good) governance institutions in and outside Europe." (Johannes Muntschick, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (5), 2016)

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Francesco Duina, University of British Columbia, USA Andrea Gawrich, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany Christof Hartmann, University Duisburg Essen, Germany Merran Hulse, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Anja Jetschke, University of Göttingen, Germany Julia Leininger, German Development Institute (DIE), Germany Mathis Lohaus, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Germany Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Alessandra Russo, Sant´Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa Sören Stapel, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Germany Kai Striebinger, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Germany Anna van der Vleuten, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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