Thursday, May 8, 2008

Acharya & Johnston: Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective

Amitav Acharya (Univ. of Bristol - Politics) & Alastair Iain Johnston (Harvard Univ. - Government) have published Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge Univ. Press 2007). Contents include:
  • Amitav Acharya & Alastair Iain Johnston, Comparing regional institutions: an introduction
  • Yuen Foong Khong & Helen E.S. Nesadurai, Hanging together, institutional design and cooperation in Southeast Asia: AFTA and the ARF
  • Jorge I. Dominguez, International cooperation in Latin America: the design of regional institutions by slow accretion
  • Jeffrey Herbst, Crafting regional cooperation in Africa
  • Frank Schimmelfennig, Functional form, identity-driven cooperation: institutional designs and effects in post-Cold War NATO
  • Michael Barnett & Etel Solingen, Designed to fail or failure of design? The origins and legacy of the Arab League
  • Jeffrey T. Checkel, Social mechanisms and regional cooperation: are Europe and the EU really all that different?
  • Amitav Acharya & Alastair Iain Johnston, Conclusion: institutional features, cooperation effects and the agenda for further research on comparative regionalism