Re-Evaluating Regional Organizations

<div>This book re-evaluates the regional organizations landscape and discusses how organizations&nbsp;with similar mandates can exercise strikingly different goals. Even economic organizations,&nbsp;which do not produce any outcomes in terms of economic cooperation, can be valuable for&nbsp;their members or individual stakeholders. The book’s argument is supported by a combination&nbsp;of quantitative and qualitative methods. It employs a novel dataset of 60 regional organizations&nbsp;to establish correlations between members’ goals and their characteristics. More than a dozen&nbsp;case studies in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and post-Soviet Eurasia&nbsp;illustrate the theoretic arguments of how particular types of regional organizations come&nbsp;into existence and evolve. Finally, the book examines the remarkable resilience of regional&nbsp;organizations and considers the conditions under which the stakeholders are willing to&nbsp;abandon support.</div>