Re-Evaluating Regional Organizations Behind the Smokescreen of Offic
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
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Evgeny Vinokurov • Alexander Libman
Re-Evaluating Regional Organizations Behind the Smokescreen of Official Mandates
Evgeny Vinokurov Centre for Integration Studies Eurasian Development Bank St. Petersburg, Russia
Alexander Libman Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich Munich, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-53054-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53055-0
ISBN 978-3-319-53055-0 (eBook)
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Acknowledgment
The authors thank Samuel Pinson for his help in preparing the final version of the manuscript. We appreciate diligent technical assistance of Anna Isakova. Andrey Medvedev, head of cartography laboratory of the RAS Institute for Geography, produced a set of illustrative maps of regional organizations we feature in this book. We are also thankful to Anna Reeve, the editor at Palgrave Macmillan, for her efficient processing of this volume and constant support. We are particularly indebted to Harley Balzer, Gaspare Genna, and Sergei Shatalov for their numerous helpful remarks, which have been invaluable for the development of this book. All mistakes remain our own.
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Contents
1 Introduction 1.1 Motivation for the Book: Research Plan 1.2 Approach and Methodology 1.3 Structure of the Book
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Part I Regional Organizations: An Analytical Framework 2 Typology of Regional Organizations 2.1 Terminology 2.2 Heterogeneity of ROs in the Extant Research 2.3 Four Sets of Goals 2.4 The Universe of ROs 2.5 Possible Evolutio
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