Policy Transfer and Norm Circulation: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approach

Policy Transfer and Norm Circulation brings together various fields in the humanities and social sciences to propose a renewed analysis of policy transfer and norm circulation, by offering cross-regional case studies and providing both a comprehensive and innovative understanding of policy transfer.

The book introduces a constructive interdisciplinary dialogue and comparative approach, highlighting the partial and fragmented understanding of policy transfer and the questions and challenges in the study of policy transfer in three parts. Firstly, notions of transfer and circulation, including law, (political) economy, sociology and history; secondly, a focus on European studies and the transfer of norms, both within and outside the EU; and finally, an examination within a broader IR context.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics/studies, international relations, public policy, economics and law, as well as practitioners dealing with regional integration.

Laure Delcour is a researcher with EU-H-2020 project EU-STRAT (FMSH), Associate Researcher at University Clermont Auvergne (Centre Michel de l’Hospital EA 4232).and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe.

Elsa Tulmets is Affiliated Researcher at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin and was associated from 2012 to 2018 with the International Relations Institute (IIR) in Prague. She was previously Marie Curie Fellow at CERI/Sciences Po.