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The Asean-Isis Network: Interpretative Communities, Informal Diplomacy And Discourses Of Region, Diane Stone
The Asean-Isis Network: Interpretative Communities, Informal Diplomacy And Discourses Of Region, Diane Stone
Diane L Stone
A network of think tanks–the ASEAN-Institutes of Strategic and International Studies and their researchers–have played a proactive and sometimes influential role in regional debates on Asian economic integration and security cooperation through informal diplomacy. This paper contributes to the literature on knowledge utilisation, specifically debates on the role of policy research institutes in policy making. Paying attention to the debates and research on economic and security cooperation which preceded attempts at institutionalisation drives analytical attention to scholars, think tanks and others in the ‘interpretive community’ who were engaged in a long term learning activity to shape domestic and regional
• Rapid Knowledge: ‘Bridging Research And Policy’ In International Development At The Overseas Development Institute, Diane L. Stone
• Rapid Knowledge: ‘Bridging Research And Policy’ In International Development At The Overseas Development Institute, Diane L. Stone
Diane L Stone
Numerous organizations advocate the need to ‘bridge research and policy’. Donors such as philanthropic foundations, national social science funding regimes and international organizations have sought to improve knowledge utilization. Similarly, research consumers such as NGOs and government departments complain of research irrelevance for policy purposes. The concern of this paper is with ‘evidence informed policy’ within the field of international development in which the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a London based think tank, forms the case study. Think tanks are important brokers in processes of ‘bridging research and policy’. Most think tanks are driven by the need to influence immediate …
Networks In Globalization, Howard H. Lentner
Global Public Policy, Transnational Policy Communities And Their Networks, Diane Stone
Global Public Policy, Transnational Policy Communities And Their Networks, Diane Stone
Diane L Stone
Public policy has been a prisoner of the word ‘state’”. The state is re-configured by globalization. Through ‘global public-private partnerships’ and ‘transnational executive networks’ new forms of authority are emerging through global and regional policy processes that co-exist alongside nation-state policy processes. Accordingly, this paper asks what is ‘global public policy’? The first part of the paper identifies new public spaces where global policies occur. These spaces are multiple in character and variety and will be collectively referred to as the ‘global agora’. The second section adapts the conventional policy cycle heuristic by conceptually stretching it to the global and …
Transfer Agents And Global Networks In The ‘Transnationalisation’ Of Policy, Diane L. Stone
Transfer Agents And Global Networks In The ‘Transnationalisation’ Of Policy, Diane L. Stone
Diane L Stone
This paper focuses on the role of international actors in policy/knowledge transfer processes to suggest that a dynamic for the transnationalisation of policy results. The paper seeks to redress the tendency towards methodological nationalism in much of the early policy transfer literature by bringing to the fore the role of international organisations and non-state actors in transnational transfer networks. Secondly, attention is drawn to ‘soft’ forms of transfer – such as the spread of norms – as a necessary complement to the hard transfer of policy tools, structures and practices and in which non-state actors play a more prominent role. …