LIST OF PANELS

The Covid-19 pandemic, natural or human-made disasters, large migratory flows, climate change, rising inequality, and financial crises are examples of some of the challenges which have transboundary implications in their effects and causes. Hence, the need to provide coherent and coordinated responses to address them is becoming more and more pressing. However, across the globe, multilateralism appears in crisis given the growing skepticism about the benefits of multilateral cooperation, the discredit of liberal values, and the resurgence of power competition, among other factors. In this context, the construction of global and regional strategies to respond to these shared challenges is endangered. Yet, transnational risks defy national boundaries, which no single nation or bloc can solve on its own. They demand multilateral cooperation as a mechanism on both global and regional levels. This is a practical necessity. Furthermore, the presence of transboundary risks of different nature calls for global and regional - either supranational and intergovernmental - responses beyond the borders of the nation-state. This demand for concerted and multilateral strategies varies across regions, but also across policies and issues.  

Our panel seeks to go to the heart of these global challenges by trying to elucidate which policy efforts are being put together beyond the boundaries of the nation-state. Thus, we intend to answer the following questions: How are global challenges reconfiguring the role of the nation-state in the policy response to them? Moreover, one of the characteristics of transnational governance is the fragmentation of power and control between states and constellations of non-state actors and networks. Hence, a question the panel also intends to explore is which actors and networks underlay the articulation and implementation of these transnational responses. Thirdly, demands for multilateralism vary across policy areas - economic vs. social challenges, but also across sub policy fields - as these entail different risks and challenges. Are transnational responses strengthening in particular policy areas, and weakening in others? Is there variation across time? Understanding these variations across issue areas and time is important. Finally, there is a wide agreement that regions and regionalisms matter in world politics. Yet, the role of regions and regionalism in regulatory cooperation and integration remains unclear. In this respect, a question worth exploring is whether and how inter- and regional responses are being articulated. Do regions and regional powers seek to use regional strategies to complement, challenge, or contest global governance scripts?

Our panel studies the global and regional policy efforts that are being put together beyond the boundaries of the nation-state to respond to transboundary challenges.  Against this backdrop, our panel looks for answers to several questions, namely: how are global challenges reconfiguring the role of the nation-state in the policy response to them? Which actors and networks are behind the articulation and implementation of these transnational responses? Are transnational responses strengthening in particular policy areas, and weakening in others? Is there variation across time? Do regions and regional powers seek to use regional strategies to complement, challenge, or contest global governance scripts? We welcome conceptual and empirical papers addressing these questions, either from a quantitative and/or qualitative perspective, and that analyze both single or comparative case studies (across time, regions, policy areas). In all, we are particularly interested in papers that can implicitly or explicitly broaden our understanding of transnational risks and harms and global governance arrangements in a context marked by both structural and transnational challenges.