ASEAN resistance to sovereignty violation: interests, balancing and the role of the vanguard state
2020; Oxford University Press; Volume: 96; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/ia/iiaa150
ISSN1468-2346
Autores Tópico(s)Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
ResumoThe Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been one of the most successful organizations dedicated to regional integration. While not attempting the thick form of institutionalization seen in the European Union, it has established norms of peaceful resolution of conflicts, non-interference in domestic politics and protection of member states’ sovereignty. Scholarship has rarely examined exactly how the organization promotes members’ sovereignty, and that is Laura Southgate's task. Her well-argued book suggests that in major interactions with outside powers, a ‘vanguard state’ takes the lead to assert both national and ASEAN interests. Which state leads varied from topic to topic, allowing both the organization and its members maximum flexibility in dealing with difficult issues facing them. ASEAN began in the Cold War milieu of the 1960s, as newly independent states’ need to establish sovereignty trumped most other international political concerns. Other regionalist efforts had failed, and territorial conflicts hobbled relations...
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