Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations: Global Perspectives and the Eurasian Enigma

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Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations: Global Perspectives and the Eurasian Enigma
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Contents
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List of Tables
Acronyms
1: Introduction
	1.1. AUTHORITARIAN REGIONALISM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND IN POST-SOVIET EURASIA
	1.2. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE BOOK
	1.3. SEQUENCE OF CHAPTERS
2: Regionalism and Political Regimes
	2.1. THE COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM PERSPECTIVE
		2.1.1. Regional organizations and non-democratic members
		2.1.2. Globalization, regional organizations, and non-democracies
		2.1.3. Imperialism and non-democratic regional organizations
	2.2. AUTHORITARIAN COOPERATION PERSPECTIVE
		2.2.1. From democratic Kantian peace to a “new” autocratic peace?
		2.2.2. The mystery of modern non-democracies: who are they?
		2.2.3. How do political regimes matter for regionalism and . . . do they?
	2.3. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES AND POLITICAL REGIMES
		2.3.1. International dimension of regime transition
		2.3.2. Autocracy promotion and diffusion perspective
3: Authoritarian Regionalism
	3.1. DEFINITION
	3.2. AUTHORITARIAN REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, POLITICAL REGIMES, AND MEMBERSHIP
	3.3. POWER DISTRIBUTION
	3.4. POLITICAL IMPACT OF AUTHORITARIAN REGIONALISM
		3.4.1. Why NDROs?
		3.4.2. Tools of authoritarian regionalism
		3.4.3. Limits of authoritarian regionalism
		3.4.4. Actorness of autocratic regional organizations
		3.4.5. NDROs and the tenure of autocrats
	3.5. HETEROGENEITY OF MEMBERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
4: Studying Non-Democratic Regional Organizations: Methodological Issues
	4.1. MIXED METHODS STRATEGY: CONCURRENT VERSUS SEQUENTIAL DESIGN
	4.2. EMPIRICAL DEFINITIONS
	4.3. THE DATASET
	4.4. CONCLUSION
5: Membership and Governance
	5.1. PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS
	5.2. INDICATORS
	5.3. RESULTS: MEMBERSHIP
	5.4. RESULTS: GOVERNANCE
	5.5. CONCLUSION
6: Impact on World Politics and Economy
	6.1. EMPIRICAL APPROACH AND INDICATORS
	6.2. EMPIRICAL RESULTS
	6.3. NON-DEMOCRATIC REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION
	6.4. NDROS AND THE SURVIVAL OF POLITICAL LEADERS
	6.5. CONCLUSION
7: Past Non-Dependency in the Twenty-first Century
	7.1. EARLY YEARS: IDEOLOGICAL AND COLONIAL NON-DEMOCRATIC REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
	7.2. LARGE-N ANALYSIS: NDROS DURING AND AFTER THE COLD WAR
	7.3. WERE DROS AND NDROS ALWAYS DIFFERENT?
8: The Enigma of Eurasian Regionalism
	8.1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF EURASIAN REGIONALISM
	8.2. HISTORICAL LEGACIES AND EURASIAN REGIONALISM
	8.3. THE LIMITING FACTOR
	8.4. FROZEN CONFLICTS AND BORDER DISPUTES
	8.5. CONCLUSION
9: Political Regionalism: The CIS
	9.1. HETEROGENEITY AND POWER ASYMMETRY IN THE CIS
	9.2. GOVERNANCE
	9.3. EFFECTS OF THE CIS: ECONOMIC AREA
	9.4. EFFECTS OF THE CIS: SECURITY
	9.5. EFFECTS OF THE CIS: POLITICS
		9.5.1. Methodology of the analysis
		9.5.2. Results
		9.5.3. Support for autocratic consolidation and electoral monitoring
		9.5.4. The case of CIS-EMO
		9.5.5. Autocratic self-selection
	9.6. CONCLUSION
10: Economic Regionalism: The EAEU
	10.1. DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION
	10.2. GOVERNANCE
	10.3. RELATIONS TO OTHER REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
	10.4. HETEROGENEITY OF MEMBERSHIP AND HEGEMONY
	10.5. OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL GOALS
	10.6. OUTCOMES
		10.6.1. Economic integration
		10.6.2. Democracy
		10.6.3. Qualitative evidence: three main mechanisms
		10.6.4. Qualitative evidence: Russian foreign policy and political regimes
	10.7. CONCLUSION
11: Security Regionalism: The SCO
	11.1. DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION
	11.2. GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
	11.3. MEMBERSHIP
	11.4. THE MOTIVATIONS AND GOALS BEHIND THE COLLABORATION OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN
	11.5. HEGEMONY AND THE SCO
	11.6. THE OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL GOALS OF THE SCO
	11.7. ALLIES OR RIVALS?
	11.8. COOPERATION WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
	11.9. FAILED MULTILATERALISM OR SUCCESSFUL BILATERALISM?
	11.10. IMPACT ON POLITICAL REGIMES
		11.10.1. Large-N evidence
		11.10.2. Honor among thieves: SCO and trust-building among autocracies
	11.11. CONCLUSION
12: Conclusion
	12.1. AUTOCRATIC REGIONALISM AS A PHENOMENON AND ITS IMPACT
		12.1.1. Non-democratic regional organizations as a new type of regionalism
		12.1.2. Democratic vs. non-democratic regional organizations: how different are they?
		12.1.3. The importance and implications of the NDRO as a new type
	12.2. THE EURASIAN ENIGMA
		12.2.1. Post-Soviet Eurasia as a hub of authoritarian regionalism
		12.2.2. Autocracy Diffusion in Eurasia
		12.2.3. What can we learn from post-Soviet Eurasia?
	12.3. WORLD-WIDE IMPLICATIONS
	12.4. AGENDA FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
APPENDICES
	I. Extended econometric analysis: Tables
	II. Selected observations for the FH data
	III. Extended econometric analysis: Robustness checks
	IV. List of organizations included in the large-N analysis of this book
References
Index