TY  - JOUR
TI  - Transgovernmental Network Governanceand the Co-Competition of Asian Space Governance
T2  - INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS RESEARCH JOURNAL
IS  - INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS RESEARCH JOURNAL
KW  - Transgovernmental network governance
KW  - epistemic community
KW  - Structural network analysis
KW  - Leadership
KW  - Co-competition
AB  - With the facilitation of globalization and technological advancements, the growing complexity of global issues has expandedthe spatiotemporal scope of their impact. In international relations, sub-units beneath the primary actors - states - haveemerged as critical actors with a demand for effective and real-time responses to global affairs. Transgovernmental networkgovernance, operating by the sub-units in a decentralized and centrifugal architecture, has emerged as a diverse and flexiblegovernance model that transcends interstate interactions. Simultaneously, international regimes have expanded based onsmall-scale cooperation. When niches exist in specific issue areas, major powers have initiated the construction of transgovernmentalnetwork governance, positioning themselves as pivotal actors. In the realm of space governance in Asia, Chinaand Japan have each established transgovernmental network governance mechanisms promoting capacity building andcooperation centred around themselves - the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) and the Asia-PacificRegional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF). Case studies of the aforementioned organizations further reveal that when pluraltransgovernmental networks operate within the same issue area, the governance landscape takes on a derived form ofcoexistence between competition and cooperation, which is the transgovernmental network governance of "co-competition."Across multiple analytical levels, such characteristics indicate a flexible space of proliferation, expansion, and transformation.This article was submitted 28.09.2023
AU  - Kuang-Ho Yeh
AU  - Guihua Ni
UR  - https://iorj.hse.ru/en/2024-19-1/911133247.html
PY  - 2024
SP  - 7-29
VL  - 19