Shifting policy components from the national to the international level
Meeting global challenges often requires combining national building blocks and complementary inputs at the international level (see figures 3–5 in the previous chapter). But where does the production path start? The discussion so far has examined primarily national policy responses to global policy demands—the top-down side of the production path, with demand coming from “above” and action occurring nationally. International cooperation is an iterative, looping process, sometimes proceeding from the international to the national and sometimes from the national to the international.