Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Tables......Page 9
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Why study institutional design?......Page 15
Institutional design in the literature on regionalism......Page 16
The study of international institutions......Page 26
Definition of institutional design......Page 29
Variables......Page 30
Summary of findings......Page 41
1. Introduction......Page 46
2. ASEAN: formation and institutional consolidation,
1967–90......Page 53
ASEAN and the Cambodian conflict: a case of successful cooperation......Page 56
3. Institutional innovations in a changing environment,
1991–2006: debating the future of the “ASEAN Way”......Page 58
4. Institutional innovation in a changing external
environment, 1991–2006: economics, crises, and
institutional adaptation......Page 64
The sources of institutional design: AFTA and the “threat” of FDI diversion......Page 65
Incremental learning and institutional adaptation: improving the efficacy of cooperation......Page 66
The effect of institutional design on cooperation in AFTA......Page 68
Institutional change in the AEC: new mechanisms for monitoring and adjudication......Page 69
5. The Sources of the ARF and their impact on
institutional design......Page 72
The factors influencing institutional design......Page 80
Characterizing ARF cooperation......Page 84
6. Conclusion......Page 92
3 International cooperation in Latin America:
the design of regional institutions by slow
accretion......Page 97
Founding ideas......Page 99
Central America......Page 101
Honoring inherited boundaries......Page 104
Defending sovereignty and non-intervention......Page 105
Mediating disputes......Page 107
Implementing agreements......Page 108
Issue area subsystems: simultaneity of conflict and cooperation......Page 111
The transformation of international and domestic politics in the 1980s......Page 113
The triumph of regionalist multilateralism in the 1990s......Page 115
Coalitions of the willing......Page 118
Southernmost South America and MERCOSUR......Page 120
MERCOSUR’s troubles: expansion or deepening?......Page 127
Central America and the Central American Common Market......Page 129
Assessing hypotheses......Page 133
Hypothesis rejection......Page 135
Hypotheses with mixed results......Page 138
Hypothesis acceptance......Page 139
Conclusions......Page 141
4 Crafting regional cooperation in Africa......Page 143
A record of failed cooperation?......Page 145
International cooperation as a source of domestic power......Page 146
The OAU......Page 147
General enthusiasm for international agreements......Page 150
Cooperation that fails......Page 151
The SADC......Page 153
Cooperation with external pressure......Page 155
Conclusion......Page 158
Introduction: new partners, new tasks......Page 159
Membership......Page 163
Scope......Page 164
Formal rules: control and flexibility......Page 165
Norms......Page 167
Mandate......Page 168
Agent autonomy......Page 169
The functional explanation: threats, cooperation problems, and institutional design......Page 171
The constructivist explanation: identity and community......Page 177
The realist explanation: US hegemony......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 179
Policy convergence in post-Cold War NATO decisions......Page 180
Routes to policy convergence (and divergence)......Page 185
Conclusions......Page 191
6 Designed to fail or failure of design?
The origins and legacy of the Arab League......Page 194
I: A league of their own......Page 199
II: Life after creation......Page 207
A separate peace?......Page 209
Arab Collective Security Pact......Page 212
Baghdad Pact......Page 215
III: The Arab League and its alternatives after the 1970s......Page 222
IV: Not quite an epilogue......Page 226
Introduction......Page 235
Social mechanisms and regional institutions......Page 237
Incentives and cost/benefit calculations......Page 238
Role playing......Page 239
Normative suasion......Page 241
Cautions and caveats......Page 243
Regional institutions and cooperation in contemporary Europe......Page 244
Persuasion as a mechanism of European regional cooperation......Page 245
Mandates and actor independence......Page 246
Membership and agency......Page 248
The European Commission......Page 251
What makes Europe different – or is it different?......Page 253
Conclusions......Page 257
Variations in institutional design, and their sources......Page 258
Elements of institutional design......Page 261
Sources of continuity and change in institutional design......Page 271
Some propositions......Page 275
The nature of cooperation......Page 277
Conclusion: agenda for further research on comparative regionalism......Page 284
Bibliography......Page 293
Index......Page 317