This article considers how nation states steer transnational forums by examining how the Australian government has ‘metagoverned’ the Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime, a multilateral forum with 50 plus members (nation states and international agencies) that was created in 2002 to promote policy dialogue, information sharing and practical cooperation on irregular migration in the Asia Pacific region. A ‘tools-based approach’ is used to analyse the Australian government’s metagovernance of this forum across four dimensions: nodality; authority; treasure; organisation. The overall finding is that Australia has accumulated steering capacity across each of these dimensions and that a ‘tools-based approach’ to metagovernance offers a promising way of understanding differences in steering capacity within transnational forums.

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亚太地区移民政策的元治理：政策工具分析

本文探讨了民族国家如何引导跨国论坛，考察了澳大利亚政府如何“元治”了关于人口走私、人口贩运和相关跨国犯罪的巴厘岛进程，这是一个由 50 多个成员（民族国家和国际机构）组成的多边论坛。成立于 2002 年，旨在促进亚太地区非正常移民问题的政策对话、信息共享和务实合作。使用“基于工具的方法”来分析澳大利亚政府在四个维度上对该论坛的元治理：节点性；权威; 宝藏; 组织。