Amitav Acharya / Alastair Iain Johnston (eds.)

Crafting Cooperation

Herausgeber: Acharya, Amitav; Johnston, Alastair Iain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9780521876032
• ISBN-10: 0521876036
• Artikelnr.: 23041419

Autorenporträt

Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations in the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, SIngapore.
Alastair Iain Johnston is the Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Comparing regional institutions: an introduction Amitav Acharya and
Alastair Iain Johnston; 2. Hanging together, institutional design and
cooperation in Southeast Asia: AFTA and the ARF Yuen Foong Khong and Helen
E.S. Nesadurai; 3. International cooperation in Latin America: the design
of regional institutions by slow accretion Jorge I. Dominguez; 4. Crafting
regional cooperation in Africa Jeffrey Herbst; 5. Functional form,
identity-driven cooperation: institutional designs and effects in post-Cold
War NATO Frank Schimmelfennig; 6. Designed to fail or failure of design?
The origins and legacy of the Arab League Michael Barnett and Etel
Solingen; 7. Social mechanisms and regional cooperation: are Europe and the
EU really all that different? Jeffrey T. Checkel; 8. Conclusion:
institutional features, cooperation effects and the agenda for further
research on comparative regionalism Amitav Acharya and Alastair Iain
Johnston.

Rezensionen

‘In this examination of how institutions resolve regional cooperation problems, a top-flight range of authors deploy serious area studies knowledge within a rich and carefully crafted analytical framework. The book should be of a great interest to both general IR scholars and to regional specialists. A winning combination.’ Andrew Hurrell, Director, Centre for International Studies, Oxford University