Interregional parliamentary assemblies: a new layer in the multi-level global governance system

The aim of the chapter is to explore the possible contribution of interregional parliamentary institutions to the multi-level global governance system. For this purpose, an analysis aiming at gradually collocating these institutions within the broad theoretical framework provided by the literature on regionalism is initially proposed. In the second part, an empirical overview of interregional parliamentary institutions is presented. This brief overview is necessary both to propose a first categorisation of these institutions, as well as to asses their possible contribution to global governance, that is clarified in the third and final section.