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From 2000 through 2004, transatlantic political disputes intensified over the establishment of an international criminal court, the status of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the US conduct of the war on terror, and the war in Iraq, among other matters. High-level officials in the United States (US) spoke of "punishing" France and "ignoring" Germany. Not only pundits, but business leaders feared that the acrimony over political and security matters could spread to the economic realm. Ad hoc boycotts were organized against French wines in the United States and US products in Europe. Disputes escalated over steel tariffs, agricultural subsidies, aircraft production subsidies, tax subsidies, consumer, food safety, and environmental laws and regulations. The various transatlantic dialogues among "civil society" groups, which had been established during the 1990s to spur public participation in the transatlantic sphere, lost momentum. Had the hopes of a "new world order" underpinned by the transatlantic alliance faded away? Would the economic side of the 1990's "New Transatlantic Agenda" ("NTA") wither from neglect?

Global governance is essentially about governance. That is, it is about those mechanisms that make societal or global determinations. Comparative institutional analysis is by its nature focused on governance and governance mechanisms and understanding institutional behavior lies in the dynamics of participation– the bottom-up forces that determine who is influential and who is not. In turn, the dynamics of participation is dependent in turn on the costs and benefits of participation. The works in this book attempt to establish and grow comparative institutional analysis as a general analytical framework for organizing the issues of global governance. The first chapter exams the basic constitutional issues faced by global governance. The second expands these insights to a general framework to analyze global governance. The third explores global governance and the use of comparative institutional analysis in the context of environmental issues. The fourth explores the institutional choice issues raised by trade and more broadly global public goods. The fifth examines what comparative institutional analysis of various sorts tell us about globalization and the role of law. Although this book sets out few answers, it does propose a route to a common understanding of the problems and with it a way to reach meaningful answers. ; -- Introduction, Neil Komesar 1 -- Governance Beyond the States: A Constitutional and Comparative Institutional Approach for Global Governance, Neil Komesar and Miguel Poiares Maduro 3 -- Governance, Economics and the Dynamics of Participation, Neil Komesar 29 -- Solving Domestic Environmental Regulatory Failures with Global Markets: A CIA-Based Analysis, Wendy Wagner 53 -- International Law and Global Public Goods in a Legal Pluralist World, Gregory Shaffer 87 -- Globalisation and Law: A Call for a Two-fold Comparative Institutional Approach, Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt 107