Re-evaluating regional organizations : behind the smokescreens of official mandates / Evgeny Vinokurov, Alexander Libman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vinokurov, Evgeny, author.

Libman, Alexander, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Evaluation.

Economics.

Regional economics.

Space in economics.

Evaluation.

Physical Description:

xix, 281 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

This book takes a mixed-methods approach to completely re-evaluate the regional organizations landscape. Based on a systematic categorization of heterogeneous goals, it identifies several regional organizations in various parts of the world (Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and post-Soviet Eurasia) to illustrate the most typical cases of how particular types of regional organizations come into existence and evolve. Chapters use a novel large-N dataset of more than sixty regional organizations to establish correlations between members' goals and their characteristics. Finally, it examines the few cases of formal dissolution of regional organizations in the last fifty years to consider the conditions under which all stakeholders are willing to abandon their support for regional organizations.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Regional organizations: an analytical framework

Typology of regional organizations

Historical factors

Economic development and crises

Power asymmetries

Political regime

Part II. The universe of regional integration organizations

Determinants of RO type: large-N evidence

'Straight path' alive and kicking regional organizations

Alternative path: a regional organization's rebirth

Integration rhetoric

Talking club

Zombies and coma

Dissolution of regional organizations

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index.

ISBN:

3319530542

9783319530543

OCLC:

967366098