TY - BOOK

T1 - Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations

T2 - Regional Institutions and the Role of the European Union

AU - Lenz, Tobias

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Tobias Lenz 2021.

PY - 2021/7/2

Y1 - 2021/7/2

N2 - How and under what conditions does the European Union (EU) shape processes of institution building in other regional organizations? This book develops and tests a theory of interorganizational diffusion in international relations that explains how successful pioneer organizations shape institutional choices in other organizations by affecting the institutional preferences and bargaining strategies of national governments. The author argues that Europe’s foremost regional organization systematically affects institution building abroad, but that such influence varies across different types of organization. Mixing quantitative and qualitative methods, it shows how the EU institutionally strengthens regional organizations through active engagement and by building its own institutions at home. Yet the contractual nature of other regional organizations bounds this causal influence: EU influence makes an identifiable difference primarily in those organizations that, like the EU itself, rest on an open-ended contract. Evidence for these claims is drawn from the statistical analysis of a dataset on the institutionalization of 35 regional organizations in the period from 1950 to 2017, as well as from detailed single and comparative case studies on institutional creation and (non-)change in the Southern African Development Community, Mercosur, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

AB - How and under what conditions does the European Union (EU) shape processes of institution building in other regional organizations? This book develops and tests a theory of interorganizational diffusion in international relations that explains how successful pioneer organizations shape institutional choices in other organizations by affecting the institutional preferences and bargaining strategies of national governments. The author argues that Europe’s foremost regional organization systematically affects institution building abroad, but that such influence varies across different types of organization. Mixing quantitative and qualitative methods, it shows how the EU institutionally strengthens regional organizations through active engagement and by building its own institutions at home. Yet the contractual nature of other regional organizations bounds this causal influence: EU influence makes an identifiable difference primarily in those organizations that, like the EU itself, rest on an open-ended contract. Evidence for these claims is drawn from the statistical analysis of a dataset on the institutionalization of 35 regional organizations in the period from 1950 to 2017, as well as from detailed single and comparative case studies on institutional creation and (non-)change in the Southern African Development Community, Mercosur, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

KW - Politics

KW - ASEAN

KW - Contractual open-endedness

KW - Diffusion

KW - EU

KW - Institutional change

KW - Institutional design

KW - Mercosur

KW - Mixed methods

KW - NAFTA

KW - Regional organizations

KW - SADC

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U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780198823827.001.0001

DO - 10.1093/oso/9780198823827.001.0001

M3 - Monographs

SN - 9780198823827

T3 - Transformations in Governance

BT - Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - Oxford

ER -