Institutional Designs for a Complex World : : Bargaining, Linkages, and Nesting / / ed. by Vinod K. Aggarwal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Aggarwal, Vinod K.,; Cohen, Benjamin J.,; Crawford, Beverly,; Dupont, Cédric,; Weber, Steven,
• HerausgeberIn: Aggarwal, Vinod K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 4 tables, 24 graphs

How do established global institutions adapt to new circumstances? And how are the formation and evolution of regional institutions constrained by global ones? These questions, especially relevant for today's transforming Europe, are at the center of Institutional Designs for a Complex World. In this volume, respected scholars explore the possibilities for reconciling regional and global institutions by nesting one within the other, or by creating parallel institutions that deal with separate but related activities. The authors use an innovative theoretical framework to analyze the factors that lead to institutional bargaining games. They show how institutional innovation and the use of linkages might alter such games. Their essays, published here for the first time, examine the development of the Financial Support Fund, the European Economic Area, institutional competition and conflict in the Bosnian crisis, and problems in the European Monetary System. They reveal the advantages for international cooperation of both parallel and substantive institutional reconciliation, and provide a model for understanding institution-building and modification beyond the European experience.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Reconciling Multiple Institutions: Bargaining, Linkages, and Nesting -- 2. Nested Institutions and the European Monetary System -- 3. An Empty Nest? Reconciling European Security Institutions in the Bosnian Crisis -- 4. The Failure of the Nest-Best Solution: EC-EFTA Institutional Relationships and the European Economic Area -- 5. When Giants Clash: The OECD Financial Support Fund and the IMF -- 6. Institutional Nesting: Lessons and Prospects -- Index