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Published online: November 2019 ; Global policy making is taking shape in a wide range of public sector activities managed by transnational policy communities. Public policy scholars have long recognised the impact of globalisation on the industrialised knowledge economies of OECD states, as well as on social and economic policy challenges faced by developing and transition states. But the focus has been on domestic politics and policy. Today, policy studies literature is building new concepts of 'transnational public-private partnership', 'trans-governmentalism' and 'science diplomacy' to account for rapid growth of global policy networks and informal international organisations delivering public goods and services. This Element goes beyond traditional texts which focus on public policy as an activity of states to outline how global policy making has driven many global and regional transformations over the past quarter-century. ; -- 1 Public policy for global problems -- 2 Creating global policy : public and private constructions -- 3 Transnational networks : policy in partnership -- 4 Global policy persuasion : from evidence-based policy to science diplomacy -- 5 Navigating global policy processes

AbstractThis article discusses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and in particular global IPR expansion. That globally protected intellectual property (IP) is more valuable than ever must be set against the fact that today's global network capitalism, in which IP is so valuable, also enables information to circulate beyond IP control. Similarly, global IP expansion and its resistance go hand in hand, as global IP expansionist policy contains but also encourages infringement. We document this conflict, the paradoxical space affording it, the boundary disputes that manifest it, and the global IP expansionist policy 'ratchet' designed, but which fails, to contain it. We then evaluate global IPRs and the case for extensions, as manifested in treaties such as ACTA, TPP and TTIP. This evaluation is undertaken though specific examinations of copyright, patent and trademark laws. Claims for the overall social benefit of global IP harmonisation and expansion policies are rejected.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO SUMMERIZE AND STIMULATE NEW IDEAS IN THE NEW FIELD OF GLOBAL POLICY STUDIES. THIS FIELD CAN BE DEFINED AS THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIONS DESIGNED TO DEAL WITH SHARED POLICY PROBLEMS. GLOBAL POLICY STUDIES IS RELATED TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT, AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES.

Next Generation is the most important output to have emerged out of Global Policy North, a loose network of academics and researchers based in the north of England, with a hub at Durham University's Global Policy Institute.

AbstractThe global financial crisis revealed not only the need for greater oversight of the private sector, but also the co‐dependence of governments and those firms. From national economic governance to transnational regulations such as the Basel III regulations, the continued strong influence of the private sector in negotiating, setting standards and implementing them through private bodies such as the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) remains undeniable. The global financial crisis thus illustrates how even amidst valid claims that 'the state is back', global policy making is increasingly multi‐stakeholder in character. This article provides a snapshot of the increasing extensiveness of multi‐stakeholder processes through a conceptual overview and an empirical survey, highlighting instances in which various actor pillars (governments, intergovernmental organisations, civil society organisations, corporations, etc.) have begun to expand their membership and participation to include other stakeholders. It demonstrates that even as the main actor groups that serve as the foundation of global policy processes remain mostly unchanged, the extent to which each pursues multi‐stakeholder approaches has increased.