European University Institute Library

The Indonesian way, ASEAN, Europeanization, and foreign policy debates in a new democracy, Jürgen Rüland

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The Indonesian way

electronic resource

bibliographydictionaries

984512296

Jürgen Rüland

University Press Scholarship eBooksStudies in Asian security

ASEAN, Europeanization, and foreign policy debates in a new democracy

This book challenges the proposition that regional organizations across the world exhibit increasing similarities with the European Union as a result of norm diffusion. It examines how and to what extent Indonesian foreign policy stakeholders—the government, civil society, legislators, the academe, the press and business representatives—sought to influence reforms of Southeast Asian regionalism by adopting ideas and norms of regional integration championed by the EU. Triggering the Indonesian debate on regionalism was the decision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Indonesia is a founding member, to draft an ASEAN Charter, a quasi-constitutional document adjusting the grouping’s repository of cooperation norms to a changing international environment. Applying and developing further Amitav Acharya’s theory of “constitutive localization,” the analysis of the ASEAN Charter debate shows that—to varying degrees—Indonesian foreign policy stakeholders transfer the terminology of European integration to ASEAN’s organizational structure, but that they adopt only partially, if at all, the normative substance of the EU model for regional integration. Instead, they skillfully reconcile alien norms with local norms, with the effect of retaining what could be called an Indonesian way of foreign policy-making.--, Provided by Publisher

Theory and methodology -- The "cognitive prior" and the European challenge -- The Indonesian government and the ASEAN Charter -- Non-governmental organizations and the ASEAN Charter -- The legislature and the ASEAN Charter -- The Charter and the academe -- The press and the ASEAN Charter -- Business and the ASEAN Charter -- Indonesian visions of regionalism : from Yudhoyono to Jokowi