This article examines the goals, methods, and implications of regional organizations
founded and dominated by autocracies—including the Commonwealth of Independent …

The interconnection between international organizations (IOs) membership and
democratization has become a topic of intense debate. However, the main focus of the …

How can we explain the emergence and institutional design of regionalism across the
globe? 1 There are basically two stylized explanations for regional cooperation and …

Most accounts of international negotiations suggest that global agreements are individually
crafted and distinct, while some emerging scholarship suggests a heavy reliance on models …

The ideational impact captured by Manners's notion of normative power Europe (NPE)
appears most distinct and potentially most consequential in the realm of regionalism …

What drives processes of institution building within regional international organizations? We
challenge those established theories of regionalism, and of institutionalized cooperation …

A seemingly never-ending stream of observers claims that the populist emphasis on
nationalism, identity, and popular sovereignty undermines international collaboration and …

On December 31, 2015, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
ushered in a new era with the founding of the ASEAN Community (AC). The culmination of …

This chapter provides a general overview of the Handbook of Comparative Regionalism.
First, it establishes that the Handbook constitutes a major stock-taking attempt promoting …

Regional organizations (ROs) display significant variation in their institutional design. Some
have a diversified institutional architecture; others are fairly simple in their institutional …