Abstract
This chapter studies regional organizations serving as platforms for high-level communication between member states, often on topics unrelated to their official objectives. In particular, it investigates three cases of these ‘talking clubs’: the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Latin American Integration Association, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It shows the factors determining the emergence of ‘talking clubs’, as well as restricting their development toward full-fledged functioning organizations (in particular, the contradictions between key member states and the incompatibilities of their agendas for the regional organization).
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Seawright and Gerring 2008.
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http://www.apec.org/~/media/Files/AboutUs/Structure/APEC_Structure_June2015_img.J, accessed 30 October 2016.
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http://www.apec.org/Projects/Projects-Overview.aspx, accessed 30 October 2016.
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http://www.apec.org/About-Us/About-APEC.aspx, accessed 30 October 2016.
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Scollay 2012.
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See Kazantsev 2009.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Evils, accessed 30 October 2016.
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On the current interaction of SCO and CSTO see Luzianin et al. 2015.
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Boland 2011: 20-22.
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Podberezkina 2016.
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Baumann 2011.
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For example, Malamud and Gardini 2012.
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http://www.actrav.itcilo.org/actrav-english/telearn/global/ilo/blokit/aladi.htm, accessed 1 September 2016.
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Fritz et al. 2010.
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Vinokurov, E., Libman, A. (2017). Talking Club. In: Re-Evaluating Regional Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53055-0_11
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