Patching Together a Global Script: The Demand for and Supply of Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

Börzel, Tanja A.; Hüllen, Vera van

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“…The SACU (Southern African Customs Union) was formally binding labour and public budgets in southern Africa at a time when Schengen was still a fameless village. This is not to deny that there might be a 'global script' (Börzel and van Hüllen, 2015) explaining the proliferation of regional projects and that the EU might play an important role in it. But if there is diffusion, it seems more concerned with the formal institutional setup of the EU and its symbols rather than with its integration rationale.…”

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Is Africa Really Following Europe? An Integrated Framework for Comparative Regionalism

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Mattheis

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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Since the establishment of the AU (African Union) in 2002, there have been indications that Africa may be following in Europe's footsteps in the process of regional integration. But is this really so? This article argues that, while there is an increasing focus on comparative regionalism in scholarly debates, we have not yet developed frameworks for empirical comparative research in this field. This often leads analysts to draw general conclusions from cases of institutional isomorphism, thus neglecting other critical dimensions. By applying an integrated framework, which takes into account the multi‐dimensional aspects of old and new regionalisms, this article shows that the most critical features of the European regionalization process, from the gradual stepwise approach towards shared sovereignty to the focus on trade integration and social cohesion, are largely absent from Africa's regionalism, which presents unique characters that are often overshadowed by traditional analyses.

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Section: Regionalism: a Synthesis Between 'Old' And 'New' Approachesmentioning

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Is Africa Really Following Europe? An Integrated Framework for Comparative Regionalism

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Mattheis

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Scholarship in comparative regionalism has established the ‘region’ as a crucial level of political analysis in-between the ‘global’ and the ‘national’ (Börzel and Risse, 2016; Solingen, 2008). This literature has shown that by delegating or pooling authority to ROs, states open to regional involvement in issues normally considered to be part of domestic affairs (Börzel and van Hüllen, 2015; Coe, 2015; Hooghe and Marks, 2014). The special issue contributes to this agenda by shedding light on the specific situations in which ROs intervene in member states that experience a democratic crisis.…”

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Regional sanctions and the struggle for democracy: Introduction to the special issue

Hellquist

Palestini

2020

International Political Science Review

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Regional organisations (ROs) around the world increasingly use sanctions against member states in situations of democratic crisis. This special issue unpacks the trend of RO sanctions in regions that are both democracy-dense (Europe and the Americas) and autocracy-dense (Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East). We argue that regional sanctions cannot be taken at face value as instruments of democracy promotion. Instead, the politics of regional sanctions unveil controversies over the substance and limits of democracy, as well as over practical processes of regional interference in a sphere that is at the core of ‘domestic affairs’. In this introductory article, we situate the special issue at the crossroads of debates within comparative regionalism, sanctions, and democracy/autocracy promotion, and discuss how the membership premise crucially distinguishes RO measures from foreign policy and United Nations (UN) sanctions.

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“…Given the tendency of states to treat elections as a sensitive issue pertaining to national sovereignty, a growing body of literature has sought to explain the global expansion of international election observation. Some scholars have analyzed the proliferation of election monitoring mechanisms as a key component of a liberal global script whereby international organizations are used to promote democracy across the globe (Börzel and Van Hüllen, 2015). However, election monitoring has emerged within ROs composed not only of consolidated democracies but also of illiberal or authoritarian regimes (Cooley, 2015; Debre and Morgenbesser, 2017; Hyde, 2011; Kelley, 2012).…”

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Democracies’ support for illiberal regimes through sovereignty-protective regional institutions: the case of UNASUR’s electoral accompaniment missions

Agostinis

Closa

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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Why do democracies agree with contested illiberal regimes on the creation of regional institutions for election monitoring? This article tackles this puzzle by analyzing the creation of the Union of South American Nations’ (UNASUR) Electoral Council (ECU) and its electoral “accompaniment” missions. The case of the ECU is particularly relevant, since its missions allowed for the legitimization of illiberal electoral practices in a region predominantly populated by democratic states that have pursued democracy consolidation through regional cooperation. We show that the emergence of the ECU resulted from the interaction of the following conditions: Venezuela’s leadership; the mobilization of the transgovernmental network of South American electoral authorities; and the interaction between different sets of state preferences regarding election observation, which reached an equilibrium around an institutional design that did not impose a diminution of sovereignty on the contracting states. The article sheds light on the genesis of sovereignty-protective institutional designs, showing how they allow for the reconciliation of non-coincident preferences even in a sensitive field like election observation. The article also contributes to the literature on international election observation by explaining why democratic states may favor the emergence of monitoring mechanisms that contribute to the erosion of democracy in a region. In so doing, the article adds to the literature on regime-boosting regionalism, illuminating the conditions under which democratic regional organizations (ROs) create institutions that can boost illiberal regimes’ legitimacy. In particular, our findings show that secondary powers, like Venezuela, can strategically exploit transgovernmental networks’ mobilization to pursue their domestic and geopolitical interests (including illiberal ones) within ROs.

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Patching Together a Global Script: The Demand for and Supply of Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

Cited by 8 publications

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Is Africa Really Following Europe? An Integrated Framework for Comparative Regionalism

Is Africa Really Following Europe? An Integrated Framework for Comparative Regionalism

Regional sanctions and the struggle for democracy: Introduction to the special issue

Democracies’ support for illiberal regimes through sovereignty-protective regional institutions: the case of UNASUR’s electoral accompaniment missions

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