Thomas Risse is professor of International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is the co-director of the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe' and has been coordinator of the Research Center 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood', both funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His publications include Domestic Politics and Norm Diffusion in International Relations (Routledge, 2016), A Community of Europeans? (Cornell University Press, 2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (with Tanja A. Borzel, OUP, 2016).
Tanja A. Börzel is professor of Political Science and European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and is the director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 'Europe and its Citizens'. She coordinates the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe' together with Thomas Risse, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her current research focuses on policies and governance, comparative regionalism, and compliance in the European Union. Her publications include Environmental Leaders and Laggards in Europe (Ashgate, 2003), and The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (with Thomas Risse, OUP, 2016).
Anke Draude is a postdoctoral research associate at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood'. Her research focuses on recent interdisciplinary developments in the study of global norm diffusion and translation, governance interventions, and local agency.

• INTRODUCTION


• 1: Tanja A. Börzel, Thomas Risse, and Anke Draude: Conceptual Clarifications and Major Contributions of the Handbook


• PART I: Theory and Methodology


• 2: Stephen D. Krasner: Theories of Development and Areas of Limited Statehood


• 3: Klaus Schlichte: A Historical Sociological Perspective on Statehood


• 4: Andrew Brandel and Shalini Randeria: Anthropological Perspectives on the Limits of the State


• 5: Laura Sjoberg and J. Samuel Barkin: Critical Approaches


• 6: Eric Stollenwerk: Measuring Governance and Limited Statehood


• PART II: Time and Space


• 7: Stefan Esders, Lasse Hölck, and Stefan Rinke: Histories of Governance


• 8: Madeleine Herren: A Global History of Governance


• 9: Benedikt Korf, Timothy Raeymakers, Conrad Schetter, and Michael J. Watts: Geographies of Limited Statehood


• PART III: Governors


• 10: Markus Lederer: External State Actors


• 11: Marianne Beisheim¿ Annekathrin Ellersiek, and Jasmin Lorch: INGOs and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships


• 12: Till Förster and Lucy Koechlin: 'Traditional' Authorities


• 13: Tanja A. Börzel and Nicole Deitelhoff: Business


• 14: Benedetta Berti: Violent and Criminal Non-State Actors


• PART IV: Modes of Governance


• 15: David A. Lake: Coercion and Trusteeship


• 16: Thomas Risse: Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Coordination


• 17: Jana Hönke and Markus-Michael Müller: Brokerage, Intermediation, Translation


• 18: Anke Draude, Lasse Hölck, and Dietlind Stolle: Social Trust


• PART V: Issue Areas


• 19: Ursula Schröder: Security


• 20: Axel Dreher, Valentin Lang, and Sebastian Ziaja: Foreign Aid


• 21: Tobias Berger and Milli Lake: Human Rights, Rule of Law, and Democracy


• 22: Anna Holzscheiter: Health


• 23: Andrea Liese: Food Security


• 24: Anne Ellersiek: Education


• 25: Ralph Hamann, Jana Hönke, and Tim O'Riordan: Environmental and Natural Resources


• 26: Sandra Lavenex: Migration


• PART VI: Implications


• 27: Heike Krieger: International Legal Order


• 28: Daniel Jacob, Bernd Ladwig, and Cord Schmelzle: Normative Political Theory


• 29: Lars Brozus, Christian Jetzlsperger, and Gregor Walter-Drop: Policy

This Handbook offers a state-of-the-art examination and review of the conceptual and theoretical approaches to governance under conditions of limited statehood.