This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
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Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. How and under what conditions does
the European Union (EU) shape processes of institution building in
other regional organizations? Interorganizational Diffusion in
International Relations: Regional Institutions and the Role of the
European Union develops and tests a theory of interorganizational
diffusion in international relations that explains how successful
pioneer organizations shape institutional choices in other
organizations by affecting the institutional preferences and
bargaining strategies of national governments. The author argues
that Europe's foremost regional organization systematically affects
institution building abroad, but that such influence varies across
different types of organizations. Mixing quantitative and
qualitative methods, it shows how the EU institutionally
strengthens regional organizations through active engagement and by
building its own institutions at home. Yet, the contractual nature
of other regional organizations bounds this causal influence; EU
influence makes a distinguishable difference primarily in those
organizations that, like the EU itself, rest on an open-ended
contract. Evidence for these claims is drawn from the statistical
analysis of a dataset on the institutionalization of 35 regional
organizations in the period from 1950 to 2017 as well as detailed
single and comparative case studies on institutional creation and
change in the Southern African Development Community, Mercosur, the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and the North American Free
Trade Agreement. Transformations in Governance is a major academic
book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to
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politics, international relations, public policy, federalism,
environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the VU Amsterdam,
and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.
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