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Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations: Regional Institutions and the Role of the European Union de Tobias Lenz

Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations: Regional Institutions and the Role of the European Union: Transformations in Governance

Autor Tobias Lenz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 iul 2021

Considerăm că această lucrare reprezintă un punct de referință pentru studenții în științe politice, cercetătorii în relații internaționale și practicienii din cadrul organizațiilor guvernamentale, oferind un cadru analitic riguros pentru înțelegerea modului în care Uniunea Europeană (UE) exportă modele instituționale la nivel global. Autorul Tobias Lenz investighează mecanismele prin care organizațiile-pionier modelează structurile administrative și strategiile de negociere ale altor regiuni, propunând o teorie a difuziunii interorganizaționale testată empiric pe parcursul a aproape șapte decenii. Merită menționat că studiul extinde cadrul propus de From Europeanisation to Diffusion de Tanja A. Borzel cu date noi extrase dintr-o perioadă extinsă (1950-2017) și printr-o perspectivă ce depășește simpla imitare, analizând cum natura contractuală a unei organizații îi limitează sau îi facilitează receptivitatea la influențele externe. Putem afirma că volumul se integrează coerent în opera autorului, rafinând temele explorate în A Theory of International Organization sau Measuring International Authority, unde acesta analiza diversitatea și structura guvernanței supranaționale. Structura narativă a cărții este echilibrată între rigoarea statistică a analizei celor 35 de organizații și profunzimea studiilor de caz pe Mercosur sau ASEAN, oferind o perspectivă nuanțată asupra motivului pentru care, deși UE rămâne un model dominant, rezultatul nu este întotdeauna o convergență instituțională totală. Publicată în seria Transformations in Governance, lucrarea beneficiază de o prezentare academică de înaltă ținută, fiind esențială pentru înțelegerea dinamicii puterii în sistemul internațional contemporan.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198823827
ISBN-10: 0198823827
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Transformations in Governance

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru specialiștii în politici publice și relații internaționale, această carte oferă un instrumentar teoretic precis pentru a evalua impactul real al UE în lume. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care se construiesc instituțiile regionale, bazată pe date statistice solide și studii de caz comparative, depășind simpla teorie prin dovezi concrete din evoluția organizațiilor precum ASEAN sau SADC.

Despre autor

Tobias Lenz este un cercetător recunoscut în domeniul relațiilor internaționale, preocupat în mod special de structura și evoluția instituțiilor globale. Contribuțiile sale academice, publicate adesea sub egida Oxford University Press, explorează teme precum autoritatea internațională, emergența parlamentelor transnaționale și designul organizațional. Prin lucrări precum The Rise of International Parliaments și participarea la proiecte de anvergură ca Measuring International Authority, Lenz s-a impus ca o voce autoritară în analiza modului în care guvernanța se deplasează dincolo de granițele statului național către rețele complexe și instituții multinaționale.

Descriere

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford 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 accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states up to supranational institutions, down to subnational governments, and side-ways to public-private networks. It brings together work that significantly advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars.The series targets mainly single-authored or co-authored work, but it is pluralistic in terms of disciplinary specialization, research design, method, and geographical scope. Case studies as well as comparative studies, historical as well as contemporary studies, and studies with a national, regional, or international focus are all central to its aims. Authors use qualitative, quantitative, formal modeling, or mixed methods. A trade mark of the books is that they combine scholarly rigour with readable prose and an attractive production style.The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the VU Amsterdam, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.

Recenzii

A fascinating and timely examination of the influence of EU institutions on other regional organizations. Lenz breaks new ground in his conceptualization of transnational diffusion and puts it to work to explain heterogeneity in regional institutionalization. The EU may influence institutional preferences and strategies in other regional contexts but regional institutions around the world do not merely emulate the EU. Empirical tests spanning large-N study, process-tracing, and a paired comparison suggest that other regional institutions might have indeed been less institutionalized in the absence of interaction with the EU. The book is a must read for scholars of regional institutions and transnational diffusion alike.
For more than 60 years, international relations scholars have tried in vain to understand the relationship between Europe and regional organizations in the rest of the world. Look no further – here is the answer that will shape the debate for decades to come! In this ground-breaking book, Tobias Lenz covers all relevant regional organizations since 1950 and explains if, why and in what ways the European Union shapes their process of institution building. No serious scholar concerned with international and regional organizations, the EU's role in the world, and diffusion can afford to miss what he has to say.
This brilliant book is unique in shedding a radically new light on why and how regions around the world evolve over time in the shadow of the European Union (EU). Tobias Lenz convincingly argues that we live in a relational world, and that in such a world, the EU has been an organizational pioneer, affecting other regional organizations by shaping the way their national governments think and act. This book is destined to constitute THE main reference in the story of diffusion of Europe's approach to regional integration. No scholar or policy makers can afford to ignore it.
This book tackles an empirical conundrum in a very theoretically grounded way: On the one hand, the number of organizations that group together regional sub-sets of pre-existing national states has proliferated across the entire planet in recent decades; On the other, one of these – the European Union – is almost universally regarded as "unique" in its supra-national competences. Exploiting a comprehensive and original dataset with the formal characteristics of no less than 36 regional organizations, Lenz finds part of the answer in the process of institutional diffusion, both explicit thanks to the EU's efforts to clone itself and implicit in the efforts of others to imitate its success. No one attempting to develop a universally applicable theory of regional integration can afford to neglect Lenz's findings.
This is a phantastic book! It demonstrates that the European Union (EU) is indeed the dominant model of institutional diffusion to regional organizations in the rest of the world. However, diffusion does not lead to institutional convergence, but regional organizations across the world exhibit distinct features. National governments are no dummies simply downloading "EU software". They craft and filter EU features through their own preferences and strategies leading to the selective adaption of institutional models. Lenz develops his argument through a carefully designed mix of quantitative analyses complemented by detailed case studies. This book will have a lasting impact on both comparative regionalism and diffusion studies in general.

Notă biografică

Tobias Lenz is Professor of International Relations, Leuphana University Lüneburg, and leader of a Leibniz Junior Research Group on the legitimation strategies of regional organizations at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). His research focuses on the design and evolution of international organizations, their legitimacy and legitimation, and on the role of the European Union in global regionalism. Previous and forthcoming publications include A Theory of International Organization (with Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, OUP, 2019) and The Rise of International Parliaments: Strategic Legitimation in International Organizations (with Frank Schimmelfennig, Thomas Winzen, Jofre Rocabert, Loriana Crasnic, Cristina Gherasimov, Jana Lipps, and Densua Mumford, OUP, 2020).