SAARC: United Dream Or Regional Nightmare?
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Weak institutions, norms, and domestic regimes play key roles in explaining the lack of success of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in sustaining collaboration. This paper simulates selected Game Theory interactions to illustrate how SAARC is unable to reap gains associated with being a ‘regime’ or an ‘epistemic community’. The advantage of adopting a constructivist rather than an intergovernmentalist approach towards regional dynamics is deconstructed. Inequitable gains from cooperation, the lack of a substantial ‘pivotal power’, and an inability to meet the necessary preconditions for sustained cooperation are used as factors to explain states’ propensity for defection.
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