Does Regionalism Diffuse? A New Research Agenda for the Study of Regional Organizations
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In: Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 20, No. 4, 01.04.2013, p. 626-637.
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T1 - Does Regionalism Diffuse? A New Research Agenda for the Study of Regional Organizations
AU - Jetschke, Anja
AU - Lenz, Tobias
PY - 2013/4/1
Y1 - 2013/4/1
N2 - In the post-World War Two era, regional organizations have proliferated. The accompanying literature focuses on analysing the drivers and effects of regionalism, but has, to date, largely neglected a series of puzzling macro-phenomena: the marked spatial and temporal clustering of regional organizations, as well as similarities in their institutional design. This contribution argues that the existing approaches analyse regional organizations primarily as independent phenomena, whose genesis and design are seen as being determined either by dynamics internal to the region itself or by external forces such as powerful hegemons and globalizing pressures. Against this background, this research note argues for the broadening of existing analytical perspectives and sketches a diffusion-oriented research agenda that instead conceives of regional organizations as being interdependent.
AB - In the post-World War Two era, regional organizations have proliferated. The accompanying literature focuses on analysing the drivers and effects of regionalism, but has, to date, largely neglected a series of puzzling macro-phenomena: the marked spatial and temporal clustering of regional organizations, as well as similarities in their institutional design. This contribution argues that the existing approaches analyse regional organizations primarily as independent phenomena, whose genesis and design are seen as being determined either by dynamics internal to the region itself or by external forces such as powerful hegemons and globalizing pressures. Against this background, this research note argues for the broadening of existing analytical perspectives and sketches a diffusion-oriented research agenda that instead conceives of regional organizations as being interdependent.
KW - Comparative regionalism
KW - diffusion
KW - EU as a model
KW - institutional design
KW - regional integration
KW - regional organization
KW - Politics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84876055939&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13501763.2012.762186
DO - 10.1080/13501763.2012.762186
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:84876055939
VL - 20
SP - 626
EP - 637
JO - Journal of European Public Policy
JF - Journal of European Public Policy
SN - 1350-1763
IS - 4
ER -