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Intro -- Non-Governmental Interests in International Regional Organizations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- 1 Non-governmental Interests in the International Legal Order: Recent Trends -- 2 Participation of Non-governmental Interests in International Organizations -- 2.1 The Un-organic Involvement of Non-governmental Interests and Its Particular Diffusion in Universal Organizations -- 2.2 The Organic Involvement of Non-governmental Interests and Its Significant Diffusion in Regional Organizations -- 3 Studies on the Participation of Non-governmental Interests in International Organizations -- 4 Methodology and Research Plan -- 1 Non-governmental Interests in Regional Organizations -- 1 Evolution in the Institutional Design of Regional Organizations: The Bipolar Institutional Structure and the Multipolar One -- 1.1 The Diffusion of the Bipolar Institutional Structure and the Multipolar One until the End of the 1980s -- 1.2 The Diffusion of the Bipolar Institutional Structure and the Multipolar One from the 1990s -- 2 Non-governmental Institutions: Concept and Criteria for Classification -- 2.1 Ratione Materiae Criterion: Parliamentary, Socio-economic and Territorial Institutions -- 2.2 Legal Criterion: Integrated Institutions versus Connected Institutions -- 3 Reasons for the Establishment of Institutions Representing Non-governmental Interests Within Regional Organizations -- 3.1 The Legal Factor: Broadening of the Mandate of International Organizations -- 3.2 The Non-legal Factor: The Trend to Emulation -- 4 Current Dissemination of the Phenomenon of Institutional Multipolarism of Regional Organizations -- 4.1 The Legal Models of Interstate Institutionalized Cooperation and the Institutional Multipolarism of Regional Organizations.

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