Trajectories of regional cooperation: a comparative analysis
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Trajectories of regional cooperation: a comparative analysis Diana Panke1 · Anna Starkmann1 Accepted: 27 October 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Cooperation between states takes place in International Organizations (IOs) and Regional Organizations (ROs). Since we know more about the evolution of cooperation in IOs than ROs, this paper examines trajectories of regional cooperation. Based on a novel dataset, it provides a descriptive analysis of how all 76 ROs developed over time. This reveals that regional cooperation evolved in two waves with respect to RO size as well as the policy areas of cooperation. The paper adopts an explorative approach to examine these patterns. This reveals that ROs with regional courts and ROs which adopt a model of dynamic change are more likely to broaden their policy scopes. In addition, during the Cold War, ROs with initially broad policy scopes were less likely to obtain additional competencies, while after 1990 ROs were more likely to broaden their policy scopes when they are large in size, when their members are economically strong and when majority decisions are possible in their day-to-day operation. Keywords Regional cooperation · Regional organizations · Policy competencies · Membership · Explorative study
This paper is part of a research project "Towards an Increasing Regionalization of International Politics? Comparing the Development of External and Internal Competencies of Regional Organizations over Time" funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation (Az.10.16.1.012IB). Earlier versions of this paper have been presented at various conferences and workshops and we are grateful for the constructive comments we received from Cassandra V. Emmons, Anja Jetschke, Tobias Lenz, Johannes Muntschick, Nina Reiners, and Frederik Söderbaum. We would like to thank Ikram Ali, Lea Gerhard, Clara Hirschmann, Laura Lepsy, Laura Maghetiu, Paul Meiners, Leonardo Rey, Benjamin Schäfer, Edward Vaughan, Philipp Wagenhals, and Ivan Zolotarevskii for valuable assistance in researching sources, coding documents, supporting the databank management, literature research, and proofreading * Diana Panke [email protected]‑freiburg.de http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/politik/professuren/governance Anna Starkmann [email protected]‑freiburg.de 1
Professur Für Governance in Mehrebenensystemen, Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Belfortstr. 20, 79085 Freiburg, Germany Vol.:(0123456789)
D. Panke, A. Starkmann
Introduction International organizations (IOs) are institutionalized arenas for cooperation between at least three states and come in different forms and shapes. Some are potentially global in character and others are regional. Unlike global IOs, regional organizations (ROs) have limited instead of potentially global state membership, and the membership criteria are related to the geographical location of states (Börzel and Risse 2016; Hooghe et al. 2017). While we know a lot about the development and expansion of global IOs (e.g. Barnett and
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