Research on Transnational Governance

Quark, Amy and Elizabeth Jacob. 2025. Rising Powers and Global Cooperation: Boundary Work in Infant  Formula Standards under the WTO Regime. International Affairs. Special issue on Boundary Work in International Relations, 101(3):779-799.

FarrHenderson, Maya and Amy Quark. 2022. Autopsy of an International Alternative Break: Student Volunteers and the New Washington Consensus. Sociology of Development 8(2):192-212.

Quark, Amy, Kristen Hopewell, and Elias Alsbergas. 2022. Inter-State Competition and Transnational Capitalists across the North-South Divide: Different Strategies, New Configurations of Power. Social Problems 69(2):418-435.

Quark, Amy. 2021. Northern Firms, Standard-Setting Bodies, and Rising Powers: Influencing Regulatory Decision-Making in India and China. Sociology of Development 7(3):314-336.

Quark, Amy. 2019. Outsourcing Regulatory Decision-making: “International” Epistemic Communities, Transnational Firms, and Pesticide Residue Standard-Setting in India. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 44(1):3-28.

Quark, Amy and Rachel Lienesch. 2017. Scientific Boundary Work and Food Regime Transitions: The Double Movement and the Science of Food Safety Regulation. Agriculture & Human Values, 34(3):645-661.

Quark, Amy. 2017. Merchants of Hegemony: Neoliberalism and the legitimacy of private contractual governance in the transnational cotton trade. In (eds.) A. Claire Cutler and Thomas Dietz, The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract, pp. 237-254. Routledge.

Quark, Amy. 2016. Ratcheting up protective regulations in the shadow of the WTO: NGO strategy and food safety standard-setting in India. Review of International Political Economy, 23(5):872-98.

Quark, Amy. 2015. Agricultural Commodity Branding in the Rise and Decline of the US Food Regime: From Product to Place-Based Branding in the Global Cotton Trade. Agriculture and Human Values 32(4):777-793.

Quark, Amy and Adam Slez. Interstate Competition and Chinese Ascendancy: The Political Construction of the Global Cotton Market, 1973-2012. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 55(4). 

Quark, Amy. 2014. Private Governance, Hegemonic Struggles, and Institutional Outcomes in the Transnational Cotton Commodity Chain. The Journal of World-Systems Research, Special Issue on the Political Economy of Commodity Chains, 20(1):38-63.

Quark, Amy. 2013. Institutional Mobility and Mutation in the Global Capitalist System: A Neo-Polanyian Analysis of a Transnational Cotton Standards War, 1870-1945. Environment and Planning A, Special Issue on Polanyian Economic Geographies, 45(7):1588-1604.

Quark, Amy. 2012. Scientized Politics and Global Governance in the Cotton Trade: Evaluating Divergent Theories of Scientization. Review of International Political Economy, 19(5):895-917.

Quark, Amy. 2011. Transnational Governance as Contested Institution-Building: Transnational Corporations, China and Contract Rules in the Cotton Trade. Politics & Society, 39(1):3-39.

Quark, Amy. 2008. Toward a New Theory of Change: Socio-Natural Regimes and the Historical Development of the Cotton Textiles Commodity Chain. Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, XXXI(1):1-37.