Contesting Sovereignty

Power and Practice in Africa and Southeast Asia

Joel Ng (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49061-0 (ISBN)

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This account of the debates of the African Union and ASEAN's charter-writing processes captures the normative complexion of both organisations as they developed their post-Cold War identities. This book will be of value to scholars, foreign policy experts, diplomats, thinktanks and non-specialists interested in the governance of their regions.

Sovereignty is a foundational idea upon which regional organisation of nations is built, yet its demise has often been predicted. Regionalism, which commits states to common frameworks such as rules and norms, tests sovereignty as states relinquish some sovereign power to achieve other goals such as security, growth, or liberalisation. This book examines the practice of normative contestation over sovereignty in two regional organisations of Africa and Asia – the AU and ASEAN. A structured comparison of three case studies from each organisation determines whether a norm challenging sovereignty was accepted, rejected, or qualified. Ng has carried out interviews about, and detailed analysis of, these six cases that occurred at formative moments of norm-setting and that each had very different outcomes. This study contributes to the understanding of norms contestation in the field of international relations and offers new insights on how the AU and ASEAN are constituted.

Joel Ng is a Research Fellow of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He first worked in international affairs during the northern Uganda conflict, developing interest in security, human rights and governance. He is in the Singapore member committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP).

Part I. Normative Contestation in Regional Organisations; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Framework; Part II. The African Union; 3. The 'United States of Africa' Proposal; 4. The Conference on Security, Stability, Development, and Cooperation in Africa; 5. The Pan-African Parliament; Part III: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Part III. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations; 6. Human Rights 'Protection' in the ASEAN Charter; 7. The ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism; 8. Extending the 'ASEAN Minus X' Formula; Part IV. Comparative Findings; 9. Assessing the Model; 10. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 235 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-108-49061-1 / 1108490611
ISBN-13	978-1-108-49061-0 / 9781108490610
Zustand	Neuware