This book analyses the current state of transnational regulation within the European Union (EU).

• 1: Jonathan Zeitlin: Introduction: Theoretical Framework and Research Agenda


• A. Governing the Neighborhood


• 2: Sandra Lavenex: Experimentalist Governance in EU Neighbourhood Policies: Functionalist versus Political Logics


• B. Protecting Consumers and the Environment


• 3: Maria Weimer and Ellen Vos: The Role of the EU in Transnational Regulation of Food Safety: Extending Experimentalist Governance?


• 4: Patrycja Dabrowska-Klosinska: The EU and Transnational Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms: From Bargaining Impasse to Experimentalist Cooperation?


• 5: Katja Biedenkopf: EU Chemicals Regulation: Extending Its Experimentalist REACH


• 6: Christine Overdevest and Jonathan Zeitlin: Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT): Transnational Dynamics of an EU Experimentalist Regime


• C. Regulating Competition and Finance


• 7: Yane Svetiev: Scaling Experimentalism: From Convergence to Informed Divergence in Transnational Competition Policy


• 8: Elliot Posner: An Experimentalist Turn in International Financial Regulatory Cooperation?


• D. Ensuring Security, Justice, and Fundamental Rights


• 9: Abraham Newman: European Data Privacy Regulation on a Global Stage: Export or Experimentalism?


• 10: Jörg Monar: Extending Experimentalist Governance: The External Dimension of the EU's 'Area of Freedom, Justice and Security'


• 11: Magnus Ekengren: Extending Experimentalism in EU Crisis Management


• 12: Gráinne de Búrca: Experimentalism and the Limits of Uploading: The EU and the UN Disability Convention


• 13: Jonathan Zeitlin: Conclusions: Empirical Findings and Experimentalist Pathways

Jonathan Zeitlin is Distinguished Faculty Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the Political Science Department at the University of Amsterdam, and Founding Scientific Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS EUROPE). His current research focuses on experimentalist governance within and beyond the EU. Recent publications include Experimentalist Governance in the European Union: Toward a New Architecture (Oxford University Press, 2010); 'Experimentalist Governance', in David Levi-Faur (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Governance (Oxford University Press, 2012); and 'Assembling an Experimentalist Regime: Transnational Governance Interactions in the Forest Sector', Regulation & Governance (2014).