MAPPING A HIDDEN WORLD OF INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY COOPERATION

Broadly conceived, international regulatory cooperation consists of arrangements to promote cooperation in the design, monitoring, and enforcement or ex post management of regulation, with a view to supporting the consistency of rules across national borders. This article seeks to extend the existing literature, provide greater analytical traction to the study of international regulatory cooperation than existing approaches do, and advance understandings of how, why, and when international regulatory cooperation occurs. To do so, this article maps the various ways international organizations cooperate, collaborate, and at times, compete in the design, interpretation, and implementation of international rules, regulations, standards, and guidelines.