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I NTERNATIONAL O RGANIZATIONS L AW R EVIEW www.brill.nl/iolr Book Review Amitav Acharya & Alastair Iain Johnston (eds), Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007) 318 pp, ISBN 978-0-521-69942-6 Open a standard textbook on international organizations, and chances are that in the general chapter (the one often comprising a bit of history and theory) some explanation will be mentioned as to why states form international organizations. Chances are, moreover, that this explanation will speak of “pooling resources” or “solving common problems,” without making too many distinctions as to the sort of organizations concerned or the kind of activities those organizations will be engaged in. Much of this can be traced back to the realist approach to international relations, and finds an echo in the more recent law & economics inspired approaches: both of these have as their starting point the quasi-Hobbesian world of all against all, in which cooperation can only be explained on the basis of state interests, and only on the basis of a certain (fairly limited) conception of state interests at that. 1 That is fine as far as things go, but clearly a more subtle story, with greater eye
International Organizations Law Review – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2008
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