Introduction: how regional institutions promote peace -- Theorizing institutional design and conflict -- The landscape of regional economic organizations -- The effect of regional institutionalization on violent conflict -- Institutional design, violent conflict, and reversed causality --...

Departing from the traditional yardsticks for measuring the performance and effectiveness of regional institutions, this paper proposes a new framework to investigate their effect in the socialization (i.e. internalization of group norms by newcomers) of new members. Called Type III...