1) Bibliographic data
O'Toole, Laurence J. Jr. and Hanf Kenneth I. (2002) “American Public Administration and Impacts of International Governance.”(Special Issue) Public Administration Review (Washington, D.C.), V. 62, Sept.:158-69

2) Question(s) addressed by the author and working arguments
i) Analyze some implications of transnational governance for the institutions and practices of U.S. public management, with particular attention to another subject: environmental policy and management. A conclusion is that the public administration community must adjust traditional practices to facilitate the effective management of the global processes that, in turn, reshape the world.

ii) The article offers a sketch of the emerging administrative world, and it paints in broad strokes some of the revised landscape onto which U.S. administrators have begun to trod.

iii) Key themes of this article are that (1) the multiple forms of transnational cooperation that have emerged both limit national “autonomy” and also facilitate effective national action; and (2) public administration is a crucially important component of this dynamic.

Administrative actors have become enmeshed in a complicated, interwoven pattern of governance in ways that shape actions, issues, and opportunities for influencing administrative agencies at national, state, and local levels. These developments call for a critical reappraisal of our inherited notions of governance, management, and accountability.

3) Conceptual references to transnational-transnationalism
Development of transnational networks, a recent trend, has had a crucial impact in this increasingly fluid era. To an increasingly degree, a government’s success in pursuing domestically defined national objectives depends on how effectively it can act within changing institutional contexts, including new transnational institutions. The features of transnational governance do not suggest anything like a global government, designed more or less on the model of state-centered systems.

4) Conclusions or Final Remarks
The globalized future of public administration is already emerging, and the range extends far beyond international terrorism and national security. Territory will not disappear as a point of reference in determining administrative responsibilities. Increasingly, actors at all levels face the imperative of collaborating with others, public and private, from various jurisdictions and levels to deal with the problems that surpass the resources and problem-solving capacities of their territorially defined units. Administrative actors must become aware of the nature of the interrelated process of globalization, particularly for their own effective and responsible functioning.