Theorizing Regionalism: Cooperation, Integration, and Governance

Borzel, Tanja A. (2015) Theorizing Regionalism: Cooperation, Integration, and Governance. [Conference Proceedings] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: The end of the Cold War saw a surge in regionalism. While the number of preferential trading agreements (PTA) exploded (Mansfield and Pevehouse 2013), long-standing regional organizations, such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), experienced the delegation of more political authority and policy competencies in the past two decades (Börzel 2013). These two trends of more and deeper regionalism, respectively, are often attributed to processes of diffusion or interdependent decision-making. Regional cooperation and integration spread across time and space once the constraints of geopolitics had ceased to exist (Risse in this volume).

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