... institutions may provide such firms with additional support and compensate for their internal deficiencies, thus making them able to cope with adverse external events. Our analysis is related to different literature streams. The first concerns studies analysing the heterogenous effects of regional...

...Stuart Dawley; Danny MacKinnon; Robert Pollock The paper’s analysis of regional institutions is designed to address the neglect of the state and politics in GPN and GVC research, building on the work of Smith (2015) . While the GPN approach incorporates states as key sources of institutional power...

...Economic crises can facilitate the development of more effective regional institutions, depending on initial conditions, and institutions can in turn shield regions from crises, if they are well designed. This chapter compares six regional economic crises over the last four decades...

... in India Korea South Pakistan territory costs of taking trans Pacific partnership Korea North Philippines Taiwan Vietnam Asia Pacific Community proposal 2008 militaries July crisis 1914 counterfactuals Grey Edward regional institutions need for Reid Sir George Dreadnought battleships...

...The proliferation of interstate regional institutions in the late twentieth century is the focus of this chapter. These institutions, launched with only partial success in the 1960s, gained momentum in the 1990s after the successful completion of the peace process initiated in the 1980s...

... emerging economies non democracies legitimacy informality international law international cooperation international relations theory soft law regional institutions policy effectiveness accountability Since the end of World War II, the structures of global governance have been undergoing...

...This chapter examines Japan’s commitments to economic regionalism to address two research questions: How has Japan committed to the development of regional institutions for managing economic affairs, and what factors have driven Japan to make commitments to economic regionalism in Asia? Japan has...

...Asian regional institutions have proliferated in the new century. An investigation and explanation of institutional variation across regions contributes to an assessment of Asia's regional institutions. The determinants of choice for supranational regional institutions in Europe are unlikely...

...An explanation and assessment of Asian regional institutions first requires a definition of the key dimensions of institutional design. Three are key: decision rules, commitment devices, and membership rules. Asian regional institutions display particular characteristics on these dimensions...

... and Development Commissions decentralization local government regional institutions multilevel governance reforms Portugal Subnational governance is defined as the sum of local and regional governments, and other public and private agencies that make up the structure designed to ensure...

... features of regional institutions. Internationalizing regions exhibit institutions more attuned to market-friendly “open regionalism” that lubricates ties to the global economy. A region’s coalitional center of gravity also affects how regions interact with one another and how models diffuse across regions...

...Regional institutions exercise influence and impact constituent states and citizens both inside and outside their respective regions. As a consequence, regional institutions are increasingly confronted with concerns that the power wielded is deemed legitimate. This chapter uses the distinction...

...The purpose is to trace and assess the ways in which the US has used multilateral institutions/organizations (both those international institutions/organizations of which it is a member and those regional institutions/organizations of which it is not) and multilateralism itself to pursue its...

... relevance Meguid B O’Neill K peripheral party threat electoral system Scottish National Party reputation credibility constraints unitary state electoral geography peripheral party threat regional institutions regional constituencies all-round devolution partial devolution Political devolution...

... America regionalism regional cooperation overlapping institutions regional institutions autonomy Pan-Americanism Regionalism has pervaded the history of Latin America. However, rather than being a linear or uniform process, it has proceeded in waves ( Rosenthal, 1991 ). While new...