In a globalizing world, cross-border enforcement networks are rapidly emerging as important mechanisms to tackle illicit transnational markets. As a relatively recent mode of cross-border governance, both the IPE and public policy literatures have only just begun to explore the dynamics and implications of cross-border policy networks in general and security networks in particular. Cross-border enforcement networks are similar to current IPE conceptions of transgovernmental networks, yet the comparative analysis of such networks in this article shows that they extend, and differ, from transgovernmental networks. Instead, transgovernmental enforcement networks are emerging as a comparable but distinct transnational model and thus warrant emancipation as an object of study in their own right. By exploring two network cases concerned with US-Canada cross-border tobacco smuggling, the article discerns and describes factors and conditions that account for different outcomes among select U.S-Canada cross-border security networks: IBET/Shiprider and MYGALE. Data was collected by analyzing open primary sources and conducting interviews with subject participants in these policy networks. Based on these observations, the article generates insights that can subsequently be scrutinized using other cross-border policy case studies.

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确保跨境合作：跨政府执法网络、有组织犯罪和非法国际政治经济

在全球化的世界中，跨境执法网络正迅速成为打击非法跨国市场的重要机制。作为一种相对较新的跨境治理模式，IPE 和公共政策文献都只是刚刚开始探索一般的跨境政策网络，特别是安全网络的动态和影响。跨境执法网络与当前 IPE 的跨政府网络概念相似，但本文对此类网络的比较分析表明，它们与跨政府网络有所扩展，也有所不同。取而代之的是，跨政府执法网络正在成为一种可比但独特的跨国模式，因此有理由将解放作为其自身的研究对象。通过探讨与美国-加拿大跨境烟草走私有关的两个网络案例，本文识别并描述了在选定的美国-加拿大跨境安全网络（IBET/Shiprider 和 MYGALE）中造成不同结果的因素和条件。通过分析开放的主要来源并与这些政策网络中的主题参与者进行访谈来收集数据。基于这些观察，本文得出的见解可以随后使用其他跨境政策案例研究进行审查。通过分析开放的主要来源并与这些政策网络中的主题参与者进行访谈来收集数据。基于这些观察，本文得出的见解可以随后使用其他跨境政策案例研究进行审查。通过分析开放的主要来源并与这些政策网络中的主题参与者进行访谈来收集数据。基于这些观察，本文得出的见解可以随后使用其他跨境政策案例研究进行审查。