Title: Crafting cooperation : regional international institutions in comparative perspective /
Authors: Acharya, Amitav; Johnston, Alastair I.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: International agencies; Regional planning International cooperation.; Intergovernmental cooperation.; Regionalism (International organization)
Abstract: Compares the design and effectiveness of regional international institutions.
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.