Globalizing Interests: Pressure Groups and Denationalization

by Michael Zürn (Editor), Gregor Walter (Contributor)

Examines how national interest groups respond to the international pressures of globalization.

340 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2005

About the author

Michael Zürn is Professor of Political Science at Free University Berlin and Director of the research unit 'Transnational Conflicts and International Relations' at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin. He was founding Dean of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin (2004–9) and is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science. Michael Zürn's research focuses on international institutions and organizations and their repercussions for the foundations of political order. He is concerned especially with questions of the emergence of international regimes, as well as with issues related to the effectiveness of those regimes and compliance with the regulatory systems which they establish. Latest book publications include Handbook on Multi-Level Governance (co-edited with Hendrik Enderlein and Sonja Wältli, 2010) and Rule of Law Dynamics: In an Era of International and Transnational Governance (co-edited with André Noellkaemper and Randall Peerenboom, Cambridge, 2012).