Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 19th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Public Policy Analysis Development Issues Author(s) Leif Kalev Tallinn University Tallinn Estonia Jakobson Mari-Liis, Mari-Liis Jakobson Title Transnational spaces as challenge for governance File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract Transnational spaces as challenge for governance Leif Kalev, Mari-Liis Jakobson Tallinn University Institute of Political Science and Governance, Estonia The paper focuses on analysing transnational spaces. In the recent years transnationalism has become a popular concept especially in anthropology and sociology but also in the literature on global governance. Our focus of interest is mostly related to nation state level. We will explore transnationalism with regard to transnational social spaces that emerge due to extensive micro- and meso-level interconnection due to migratory, economic, social, cultural etc. processes (see Faist 2000). The emergence of transnational spaces puts forth a need for governing these spaces but there are also some opportunities for governing via these spaces. The relevance of such problems is clearly visible in the current context of diversification of national policy strategies in response to globalisation (see Peters, Pierre 2000, Sørensen 2004). The paper explores the conceptualisation of transnational political spaces, offers a typology of them and discusses them in the context of the main domains of transnationalism. Theoretical considerations are based on the empirical material collected in the EU DG-Research 7th framework programme „Transnationalisation, Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism (Trans-Net).“ We will mostly discuss the case of Estonian-Finnish transnational space, but if needed utilise the comparative material on the German-Turkish, French-Moroccan and UK-Indian transnational spaces. All of these spaces have formed between countries of rather different statehood and governance settings and thus should provide a rather different basis from general multi-level governance and EU governance investigations. We will give an overview of the most prominent obstacles from the aspect of governance as well as the measures or solutions developed for such instances; but also overview the cases, where these spaces tend to regulate themselves. On the basis of our discussion we will put forward policy reccommendations with regard to governance of and via transnational spaces. References Faist, Thomas. 2000. The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pierre Jon, and B. Guy Peters. 2000. Governance, Politics and the State. Houndmills, New York: PalgraveMacMillan. Sørensen, Georg. 2004. The Transformation of the State. Beyond the Myth of Retreat. Houndmills, New York: PalgraveMacMillan.
