Comparative regional integration : governance and legal models / Carlos Closa and Lorenzo Casini ; with a study by Omri M. Sender on international secretariats in comparative perspective.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Closa, Carlos, author.

Casini, Lorenzo, 1976- author.

Sender, Omri, author.

Contributor:

National University of Singapore. Centre for International Law, sponsoring body.

Series:

Integration through law (Cambridge, England)

Integration through law : the role of law and the rule of law in ASEAN integration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism (International organization).

International agencies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvi, 490 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Comparative Regional Integration: Governance and Legal Models is a groundbreaking comparative study on regional or supranational integration through international and regional organizations. It provides the first comprehensive and empirically based analysis of governance systems by drawing on an original sample of 87 regional and international organizations. The authors explain how and why different organizations select specific governance processes and institutional choices, and outline which legal instruments - regulatory, organizational or procedural - are adopted to achieve integration. They reveal how different objectives influence institutional design and the integration model, for example a free trade area could insist on supremacy and refrain from adopting instruments for indirect rule, while a political union would rather engage with all available techniques. This ambitious work merges different backgrounds and disciplines to provide researchers and practitioners with a unique toolbox of institutional processes and legal mechanisms, and a classification of different models of regional and international integration.

Contents:

Governance structures and processes in integration organisations : formalisation of institutional credible commitments for governance / Carlos Closa

The development of international legal regimes : models and instruments for legal integration beyond states / Lorenzo Casini

Lead, follow, or get out of the way? : international secretariats in comparative perspective / Omri M. Sender.

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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316442777

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.