ABSTRACT
Scholars o f the first wave of postwar regional economic cooperation focused almost exclusively on neo-functionalist theories based on institutional spillover from one issue area to the next (Haas, 1958; 1961; Haas and Schmitter, 1964; Nye, 1968; Schmitter, 1969; Lindberg and Scheingold, 1971). But with the widely acknowledged failure o f neo-functionalist explanations, the second wave o f regional cooperation has been studied from much more diverse theoretical vantage points (Haas, 1976; Mansfield and Milner, 1999).
