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Index
Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Comparing regional institutions: an introduction
Why study institutional design?
Institutional design in the literature on regionalism
The study of international institutions
Design and structure of this volume
Definition of institutional design
Variables
Summary of findings
2 Hanging together, institutional design, and cooperation in Southeast Asia: AFTA and the ARF*
1. Introduction
2. ASEAN: formation and institutional consolidation, 1967–90
ASEAN and the Cambodian conflict: a case of successful cooperation
3. Institutional innovations in a changing environment, 1991–2006: debating the future of the “ASEAN Way”
4. Institutional innovation in a changing external environment, 1991–2006: economics, crises, and institutional adaptation
The sources of institutional design: AFTA and the “threat” of FDI diversion
Incremental learning and institutional adaptation: improving the efficacy of cooperation
The effect of institutional design on cooperation in AFTA
Institutional change in the AEC: new mechanisms for monitoring and adjudication
5. The Sources of the ARF and their impact on institutional design
The factors influencing institutional design
Characterizing ARF cooperation
6. Conclusion
3 International cooperation in Latin America: the design of regional institutions by slow accretion
Founding ideas
International subsystem structure
South America
Central America
Founding international rules
Honoring inherited boundaries
Defending sovereignty and non-intervention
Mediating disputes
Implementing agreements
Issue area subsystems: simultaneity of conflict and cooperation
The transformation of international and domestic politics in the 1980s
The triumph of regionalist multilateralism in the 1990s
Coalitions of the willing
Southernmost South America and MERCOSUR
MERCOSUR’s troubles: expansion or deepening?
Central America and the Central American Common Market
Assessing hypotheses
Hypothesis rejection
Hypotheses with mixed results
Hypothesis acceptance
Conclusions
4 Crafting regional cooperation in Africa
A record of failed cooperation?
International cooperation as a source of domestic power
The OAU
General enthusiasm for international agreements
Cooperation that fails
The SADC
Cooperation with external pressure
Conclusion
5 Functional form, identity-driven cooperation: institutional designs and effects in post-Cold War NATO
Introduction: new partners, new tasks
The institutional design of NATO
Membership
Scope
Formal rules: control and flexibility
Norms
Mandate
Agent autonomy
Sources of institutional design
The functional explanation: threats, cooperation problems, and institutional design
The constructivist explanation: identity and community
The realist explanation: US hegemony
Conclusion
Institutional design and international cooperation
Policy convergence in post-Cold War NATO decisions
Routes to policy convergence (and divergence)
Conclusions
6 Designed to fail or failure of design? The origins and legacy of the Arab League
I: A league of their own
II: Life after creation
A separate peace?
Arab Collective Security Pact
Baghdad Pact
III: The Arab League and its alternatives after the 1970s
IV: Not quite an epilogue
7 Social mechanisms and regional cooperation: are Europe and the EU really all that different?
Introduction
Social mechanisms and regional institutions
Incentives and cost/benefit calculations
Role playing
Normative suasion
Cautions and caveats
Regional institutions and cooperation in contemporary Europe
Persuasion as a mechanism of European regional cooperation
Mandates and actor independence
Membership and agency
The European Commission
Summary
What makes Europe different – or is it different?
Conclusions
8 Conclusion: institutional features, cooperation effects, and the agenda for further research on comparative regionalism
Variations in institutional design, and their sources
Elements of institutional design
Sources of continuity and change in institutional design
Some propositions
The nature of cooperation
Conclusion: agenda for further research on comparative regionalism
Bibliography
Index
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