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The Organizational Architecture of the Asia–Pacific: Insights from the New Institutionalism

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  • Haggard, Stephan

    (University of California, San Diego)

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This paper surveys recent literature on the design of international institutions and applies the insights from it to the prospects for regional economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. The political and economic heterogeneity of the region has served the process of regional economic integration. But this heterogeneity has limited the extent of institutional development and contributed to well-known features of it, including a proliferation of competing institutions, consensus decision-making, "shallow" cooperation, and limited delegation to standing international secretariats. Changes in voting rules could, in principle, change these outcomes but are not likely to arise. Deepening cooperation will come, rather, from marginal changes in the extent of delegation. Several proposals are suggested about how this might occur, including more independent sources of information on regional trends, enhanced dispute settlement, and common projects that involve more extensive transfers from richer to poorer members.

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  • Haggard, Stephan, 2011. "The Organizational Architecture of the Asia–Pacific: Insights from the New Institutionalism," Working Papers on Regional Economic Integration 71, Asian Development Bank.
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    Cited by:

    1. Hamanaka, Shintaro, 2017. "Legalization of international economic relations: is Asia unique?," IDE Discussion Papers 681, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
    2. Dupont, Cédric, 2011. "What role for regional economic organizations in a fragmented trade world? The case of ASEAN," Papers 242, World Trade Institute.

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    Keywords

    international institutions; international law; regionalism; delegation; free trade areas; ASEAN; APEC; voting rules;
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    JEL classification:

    • F55 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Institutional Arrangements

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