The economic-institutional construction of regions: conceptualisation and operationalisation

Powers, Kathy; Goertz, Gary

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“…'gradualist' and 'transformationalist' (see also Rittberger and Schroeder 2016: 583). 4 To the extent that the regional integration literature is mainly interested in the question of to what degree regional organizations adopt statelike characteristics and could be compared to states, the literature is compatible with applying this standard to regional organizations (Lindberg 1970;Powers and Goertz 2011;Hooghe et al 2017;Hettne and Söderbaum 2000). 6).…”

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The Existence of Courts and Parliaments in Regional Organizations: A Case of Democratic Control?

Jetschke

Münch

2020

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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Why do states design regional organizations with courts and parliaments? Is it indeed the case that states establish them because they expect these organs to exert some kind of democratic control over executives? Undoubtedly, this is an important question given that politicians and political scientists alike regularly lament the lack of democratic control of many international organizations. We tackle this question empirically. Based on an original data set of 72 regional organizations and by using simple logistic and ordinal logistic regression analyses, this article tests for the association between domestic regime type and the existence of regional courts and parliaments. These organs were selected because they are associated with dimensions of democracy, namely constitutionality and inclusiveness. The most consistent correlates of the existence of each of these institutional bodies and the aggregate of them are functional ones: policy scope, trade-related variables, and conflict-related variables. There is no significant association between any measure of democracy and the existence of these institutions. These results are discussed the context of debates about the democratic deficit of international and regional organizations and the question of whether democratic standards are applicable to regional organizations.

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The Existence of Courts and Parliaments in Regional Organizations: A Case of Democratic Control?

Jetschke

Münch

2020

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“…"If the member countries strongly disagree about domestic economic and political management, then it is not likely that healthy regional institution will be established." (Powers & Goertz, 2011, p. 2401 It is obviously the case with APEC Free Trade Area (FTAAP) in terms of disagreement between the USA and China concerning the role of the state companies in economy, or the political tensions between Japan and China, which stopped ASEAN+3, as well as the further development of Chiang Mai Initiative.…”

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Trans - Pacific Economic Integration Processes

Gajinov¹

2016

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Asia-Pacific (AP) region is the world’s most important region today from the viewpoint of long-term economic growth. It is also the extremely important cite of rivalries or partnerships - or both - between China and the United States. The strong expansion of trade, investment and other economic ties within the AP region has stimulated the process of economic integration. The network of bilateral and regional free trade agreements has increased dramatically in recent years, linking virtually all major trading countries in the region, with one exception: either the US or China have not become members of the free trade arrangements involving the other country. The paper examines the scope, principles and characteristics of economic relations and cooperation in the AP region. The issue of whether Asian efforts for regional integration have been compatible with an open multilateral trading system at the global level is also addressed. The paper also assesses changes in the dynamics of regional integration and its future prospects. In this sense, in the Asia Pacific there are now two tracks which lead to the formation of a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP): Asian, based on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and trans-pacific, based on Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

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“…The first layer relates to the depth, degree, and direction of the change in the existing neoliberal institutional framework, such as IMF reform. The second is the extent of the emergence and solidification of the increasing number of regional financial and monetary systems (Powers and Goertz 2011). The last layer connects to the relational characteristics of the financial and monetary order developing at the global and regional level.…”

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Nonhegemonic or Hegemonic Cooperation? Institutional Evolution of East Asian Financial Regionalism

Lee¹

2015

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This article undertakes to identify the key features of institutional cooperation in East Asia to promote financial regionalism. The process employed by this study involves tracking the institutional evolution of East Asian financial cooperation, and empirically comparing and contrasting two cases to achieve this article's purpose: the emergence and development of the Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) and China's recent initiative for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The results demonstrate that CMI, which is widely regarded as one of the most robust institutional arrangements in East Asia, is institutionalized in the form of "nonhegemonic cooperation" by the ASEAN plus Three countries. "Nonhegemonic cooperation" refers to intestate institutional cooperation with the absence of a single actor (or state) that has veto power and is predominant in setting its agendas. This institutional development is contrary to the theoretical expectations of the mainstream IR literature, such as neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism. In contrast, however, the aim of China's AIIB initiative appears to be the promotion of Chinacentered regional financial cooperation that diverges from CMI-style nonhegemonic cooperation. Will East Asian cooperation be institutionally headed toward a hegemonic form? Or, will CMI-style nonhegemonic cooperation survive China's rise? The article concludes by examining the extant theories of institutional cooperation. Particular attention is paid to the question of whether the rational institutional design approach can account for hegemonic and nonhegemonic cooperation. Future research is also suggested.

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The economic-institutional construction of regions: conceptualisation and operationalisation

Cited by 45 publications

References 32 publications

The Existence of Courts and Parliaments in Regional Organizations: A Case of Democratic Control?

The Existence of Courts and Parliaments in Regional Organizations: A Case of Democratic Control?

Trans - Pacific Economic Integration Processes

Nonhegemonic or Hegemonic Cooperation? Institutional Evolution of East Asian Financial Regionalism

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