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Regional organisations: a multidimensional approach to policy scope

In: Handbook of Regional Cooperation and Integration

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  • Anja Jetschke
  • Sören Münch

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This chapter surveys the policy scope of regional organisations (ROs). Treating ROs as formal institutions based on formal treaties and agreements, the chapter first reviews some of the most important approaches to understanding and explaining regionalism and regional organisations. It identifies regional integration studies, comparative regionalism studies, and International Political Economy (IPE) studies as three central strands that partially vary in their conceptualisation of ROs. Relying on data from the Comparative Regional Organizations Project (CROP), the chapter uses an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) for a large sample of ROs and develops a multidimensional measure of policy scope. The analysis finds two dimensions, which follow the larger aims of economic prosperity and conflict resolution. This measure allows describing and comparing the variation of policy scope across ROs and goes beyond existing studies, which usually only count the number of policy areas.

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  • Anja Jetschke & Sören Münch, 2024. "Regional organisations: a multidimensional approach to policy scope," Chapters, in: Philippe De Lombaerde (ed.), Handbook of Regional Cooperation and Integration, chapter 21, pages 442-459, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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