Spurred Emulation
The EU and Regional Integration in Mercosur and Sadc
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6405835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tobias Lenz (0000-0002-6031-5261, Mortimer Surgery, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 155-173 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402382.2012.631319 |
| OpenAlex | W2162913123 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
| References cited | 37 |
This article analyses the EU's influence on regional institutional change in Mercosur and the Southern African Development Community from a diffusion perspective. Focusing on market-building objectives and dispute settlement mechanisms, it addresses the puzzle that policy-makers in both regions have, over time, increasingly adopted EU-style institutional arrangements even though alternative institutional models more suitable to their preferences for ‘pragmatic’, sovereignty-preserving cooperation have been available at various critical junctures of institutional evolution. The article makes two main arguments. First, it suggests that EU influence has affected outcomes in several specific ways that are irreducible to, and quite different from, mainstream functional accounts of economic regionalism. Second, it contends that the diffusion of EU institutional templates can be understood as a process of spurred emulation, when regional policy-makers emulate EU institutional models under conditions of uncertainty and promoted by EU-oriented domestic actors as well as the EU's direct involvement in the process
Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Emulation · Institutional change · International economics · International trade · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regional Integration · Regionalism (politics · Sovereignty · European Union Policy and Governance · Global trade and economics · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration
Informality and Relations in International Judicial Appointments
Active European Union Influence
Passive European Union Influence
Robustness Checks
European Union Diffusion and Other Regional Organizations
Revisiting Regional Institution Building
Explaining the European Union’s Interorganizational Influence on Other Regional Organizations
The Scope of European Union Influence
Theorizing Interorganizational Influence from the European Union
The Dependent Variable ‘RO institutionalization’
Summary Statistics
Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations
Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations
Conditional Diffusion
IO Overlap and the Allocation of Delegation
Una nueva ola de regionalismo
Addressing Human Rights in the Court of Justice of the Andean Community and the Tribunal of the Southern African Development Community
Monitoring regional market-building in Africa
EU-topia? A critique of the European Union as a model
Towards an increasing regionalization of international politics? An analysis of external competencies of regional international organizations
What Drives Institutional Reforms in Regional Organisations? Diffusion, Contextual Conditions, and the Modular Design of Asean
Reversed Conditionality in EU External Migration Policy
Frame diffusion and institutional choice in regional economic cooperation
Convergence at the borderline
Bilateral Climate Cooperation
The imitation game
Affirming Europe with trade
Assessing Turkey's “Normative” Power in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Regional health governance
Wessen Policy? Wie sehen Policy-Prozesse in Regionalorganisationen des Globalen Südens aus und wie können externe Akteure sie beeinflussen
Games regional actors play
Rethinking Europe’s external relations in an age of global turmoil
Desafio’ or ‘modelo’? The European Union’s international trade and Brazil, 1980s–90s
EU–China Regional Policy Dialogue
Towards a ‘gold standard for the world’? The European General Data Protection Regulation between supranational and national norm entrepreneurship
Opportunistic sub-regionalism
Regional actorness and interregional relations
A missed opportunity for regionalism
Empty Promises and Nonincorporation in Mercosur
Regionalism and diffusion revisited
Adoption, adaptation or chance? Inter-organisational diffusion of the protection of civilians norm from the UN to the African Union
A comparative reassessment of regional parliaments in Latin America
A integração regional como mecanismo para provisão de bens públicos
Transnational Bureaucratic Politics
Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria
The textual dynamics of international policymaking
EU normative power and regionalism
The emergence and evolution of an external actor’s regional role
Interregionalism without automatic integration
From Europeanisation to Diffusion
When Europeanisation Meets Diffusion
Institutionalizing Representative Democracy in the European Union
Are the Contents of International Treaties Copied and Pasted? Evidence from Preferential Trade Agreements
Normative Emulation and the Diffusion of Institutional Frameworks from the European Union to the African Union
External Europeanization through timber trade agreements
Unpacking the unintended consequences of European migration governance
Regional Voices in the European Union
Institutional pioneers in world politics
The Legalization of Dispute Resolution in Mercosur
The untold story
The use of templates in China’s and the United States’ free trade agreements
Diffusing Regional Integration
Israel and the Many Pathways of Diffusion
Making sense of the legal and judicial architectures of regional trade agreements worldwide
Support from below? Supranational institutions, regional élites and governance preferences
Does Regionalism Diffuse? A New Research Agenda for the Study of Regional Organizations
Grand theories of integration and the challenges of comparative regionalism
Boilerplate in International Trade Agreements
Domestic Capacity and the Implementation Gap in Regional Trade Agreements
Grafted or crafted
Regulatory governance regimes and interregionalism
Legal and policy relevance of EU mobility partnerships in Morocco and Cape Verde
The Logic of Regional Integration
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Politics in Time
After Hegemony
Constructing the International Economy
EU—Asean Relations and Policy-Learning
A World of Regions
Sovereignty Bargains in Regional Integration
Bounded by the Reality of Trade
Institutionalizing Asean
EU fta Negotiations with sadc and Mercosur
South Africa, Sadc, and the European Union
Ideas and foreign policy
From Europeanisation to Diffusion
The Global Spread of European Style International Courts
International cooperation and institutional choice
Diffusing Regional Integration
Policy Transfer as a Form of Prospective Policy Evaluation
The Limitations of ‘Policy Transfer’ and ‘Lesson Drawing’ for Public Policy Research
Structures Do Not Come with an Instruction Sheet
The Psychological Ideas of Amos Tversky and Their Relevance for Political Science
Exogenous Shocks or Endogenous Constructions? The Meanings of Wars and Crises
Introduction
The Politics of Dispute Settlement Design
Legalized Dispute Resolution
The New Wave of Regionalism
Economic liberation and regional cooperation in Southern Africa
What is Lesson-Drawing
The (Geo)Politics of Regional Integration
The Political Economy of Mercosur
A Free Trade Area of the Americas in 2005
Explaining Mercosur's Survival
O Mercosul e os interesses do Brasil
Institutional conditions for diffusion
| Unique citing works | 72 |
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| Citations per year | 4,8 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 71 |