Global Governance by Manual: The Transitional Justice Toolkit and the Standardization of a Field.
Guidelines, manuals, and toolkits are a ubiquitous yet overlooked prop in contemporary global governance. Produced by regional and global organizations and NGOs to guide national policymakers and practitioners, they proliferate in every field of international regulation from democratization and educ...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2026
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