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43 Va. J. Int'l L. 1 (2002-2003)
The Architecture of International Cooperation: Transgovernmental Networks and the Future of International Law

handle is hein.journals/vajint43 and id is 11 raw text is: The Architecture of International
Cooperation:
Transgovernmental Networks and the Future
of International Law
KAL RAUSTIALA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.     Introduction  ................................................................................  2
II.    Transgovernmentalism     and International Cooperation ............ 10
A .    The  Rise  of Networks ..................................................... 11
B.     The Theory of Transgovernmental Networks ................. 17
1.    Liberal Internationalism   and Its Discontents ...... 17
2.     The Network Form     and the New Century ............. 19
3.     The Advantages of Networks ............................... 24
III.   Transgovernmental Regulatory Networks: Three Cases .......... 26
A .    Securities  Regulation  ......................................................  28
B.    Com   petition  Policy  ........................................................  35
C.    Environmental Regulation .............................................. 43
D .    Sum m  ary  ......................................................................... 49
IV.    Transgovernmental Cooperation and Policy Convergence .......... 51
A.    Networks and the Export of Regulation .......................... 51
* Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics and Fellow in the Program in Law & Public Affairs,
Princeton University; Acting Professor (on leave) UCLA Law School. An earlier version of this
paper was presented at the 2002 Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, held at Yale Law School. I
thank the various officials at the EPA, DOJ, FTC, and the SEC for their assistance, and Jos&
Alvarez, Jeff Atik, Steve Bainbridge, Eleanor Fox, Damien Gerardin, Andrew Guzman, Mark
Lemley, Lisa Martin, Gary Rowe, Greg Shaffer, Chris Sprigman, Richard Steinberg, the members
of the UCLA Juniors' Group, participants at the 2002 Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, and
especially Harold Koh, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Lara Stemple for their extensive comments.
Julie Remer, Cheryl Kelly, Lindsay Carlson and Scan Goldstein of UCLA provided very helpful
research assistance.