Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Van den Brande, Karoline
    Intergovernmental Co-operation for International Decision making in Federal States: The Case of Sustainable Development in Belgium
    in Regional and Federal Studies , volume 22 n.4 ,  2012 ,  407-434
    In federal states, intergovernmental co-operation between the federal government and the subnational governments can be instigated by international decision making. That is particularly interesting in the case of sustainable development, which is characterized as an outside-in policy or a policy that finds its way to the domestic policy agenda because of international pressures. The article analyses intergovernmental co-operation for international decision making on sustainable development and studies the federal state of Belgium. It consists of a framework that discusses the Belgian institutional context, and an empirical part that analyses in detail Belgian intergovernmental co-operation practices. Three international decision-making settings are examinedthe UN Commission on Sustainable Development, the OECD Annual Meeting of Sustainable Development Experts and the EU discussions on its Sustainable Development Strategy. The article argues that there is no lack of intergovernmental co-operation for international decision making on sustainable development in Belgium. Yet, the co-operation practices are informal and ad hoc and Belgium lacks a formal framework.
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