ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 explains how the processes of globalization identified in Chapters 4 and 5 help to fill the gaps identified in Chapter 2’s discussion of world society explanations of globalization. These processes explain why aid donors from diverse domestic contexts settle on relatively similar policies and institutions, and can be expected to operate in a similar manner when examined in other cases of policy isomorphism. This chapter re-examines the processes more closely in the context of the gender and security case studies from Part II of the book, identifies the mechanisms that compose them, and compares how they operated in each of the three case study countries. From this examination, this chapter generalizes about the function of these – and other – micro-level social processes as the missing component in world society explanations of the diffusion of policy models which promote globalization and isomorphism among nation-states.
