Re-Evaluating Regional Organizations Behind the Smokescreen of Official Mandates /

• Main Authors: Vinokurov, Evgeny (Author), Libman, Alexander (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Regionalism.; Macroeconomics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

This book takes a mixed-methods approach to completely re-evaluate the regional organizations landscape. Based on a systematic categorization of heterogeneous goals, it identifies several regional organizations in various parts of the world (Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and po...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Part I: Regional Organizations: An Analytical Framework. 2. Typology of Regional Organizations
• 3. Historical Factors.-4. Economic Development and Crises
• 5. Power Assymetries. 6. Political Regime
• Part II: The Universe of Regional Integration Organizations. 7. Determinants of RO Type: Large-N Evidence
• 8. "Straight Path" Alive and Kicking Regional Organizations
• 9. Alternative Path: A Regional Organization's Rebirth
• 10. Integration Rhetoric
• 11. Talking Club
• 12. Zombies and Coma
• 13. Dissolution of Regional Organizations
• 14. Conclusions
• Annex: Regional Integration Database data
• Endnotes.