Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Pages: 86-105

Journal: Global Environmental Politics

Volume number: 18

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 1526-3800

eISSN: 1536-0091

Open access status: Bronze

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00469

Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

Abstract: 
In recent years, scholars in global environmental politics have contributed to the development of regional environmental governance (REG) research. This article contributes to the ongoing debate from an international relations perspective. It provides findings from a comprehensive qualitative comparative analysis of the six regional organic agriculture standards (OAS) in Europe, East Africa, the Pacific, Central America, and Asia. Building on research on norm localization, the analysis draws attention to interactions between the global and regional regulatory levels, regional issue-specific normative infrastructures, and the pooling of different sources of political authority by transnational entrepreneurs and regional agents. The analysis serves three purposes in the light of the ongoing debate on REG: (1) to conduct systematic comparative research; (2) to locate regional OAS within the context of conceptual debates about global norm and policy diffusion, critical norm research, policy mobilities, and comparative regionalism; and (3) to outline future areas of research.

Harvard Citation style: Schwindenhammer, S. (2018) The New Regionalism in Global Organic Agricultural Governance Through Standards: A Cross-Regional Comparison, Global Environmental Politics, 18(3), pp. 86-105. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00469

APA Citation style: Schwindenhammer, S. (2018). The New Regionalism in Global Organic Agricultural Governance Through Standards: A Cross-Regional Comparison. Global Environmental Politics. 18(3), 86-105. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00469