Crafting cooperation : regional international institutions in comparative perspective / edited by Amitav Acharya and Alastair Iain Johnston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Acharya, Amitav, editor.

Johnston, Alastair I., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International agencies.

Regionalism (International organization).

Intergovernmental cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Regional institutions are an increasingly prominent feature of world politics. Their characteristics and performance vary widely: some are highly legalistic and bureaucratic, while others are informal and flexible. They also differ in terms of inclusiveness, decision-making rules and commitment to the non-interference principle. This is the first book to offer a conceptual framework for comparing the design and effectiveness of regional international institutions, including the EU, NATO, ASEAN, OAS, AU and the Arab League. The case studies, by a group of leading scholars of regional institutions, offer a rigorous, historically informed analysis of the differences and similarities in institutions across Europe, Latin America, Asia, Middle East and Africa. The chapters provide a more theoretically and empirically diverse analysis of the design and efficacy of regional institutions than heretofore available.

Contents:

Comparing regional institutions: an introduction / Amitav Acharya and Alastair Iain Johnston

Hanging together, institutional design and cooperation in Southeast Asia: AFTA and the ARF / Yuen Foong Khong and Helen E.S. Nesadurai

International cooperation in Latin America: the design of regional institutions by slow accretion / Jorge I. Dominguez

Crafting regional cooperation in Africa / Jeffrey Herbst

Functional form, identity-driven cooperation: institutional designs and effects in post-Cold War NATO / Frank Schimmelfennig

Designed to fail or failure of design? The origins and legacy of the Arab League / Michael Barnett and Etel Solingen

Social mechanisms and regional cooperation: are Europe and the EU really all that different? / Jeffrey T. Checkel.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-302) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18232-8

1-281-15598-5

9786611155988

0-511-36934-4

0-511-37089-X

0-511-37038-5

0-511-36988-3

0-511-49143-3

0-511-37136-5

OCLC:

652330622