Indonesian Journal of Social Sciences
ISSN 1978-760X
Vol. 2 / No. 2 / Published : 2010-07
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Original Article :
Sovereignty in asean’s regional order-building
Author :
- Sartika Soesilowati*1
- Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Airlangga University
Abstract :
With ASEAN now promoting the concept of an ‘ASEAN Community’, greater theoretical and empirical attention to the complexity of sovereignty issues is imperative, enabling a more comprehensive analysis of ASEAN regionalism to be formulated and applied. This study attempts to analyse the relationship between the ideas of sovereignty and security community building in the pursuit of regional order. This will initially identify the characteristics of sovereignty relevant to this study. It will then examine the characteristics of sovereignty as it exists between ASEAN members. The methodology employs histories, archival documents, interview transcripts and other sources to see whether the causal process or theory hypotheses implied in a particular case is, in fact, evident in the sequence of intervening variables relevant to that case. The study concludes that ASEAN’s experience of community building has shown that the member-states still have insufficient will to act to reconcile the existing regional system with a capacity for deeper security cooperation because the predisposition of ASEAN members for Westphalian style sovereignty restricts this possibility.
Keyword :
sovereignty, regionalism, Westphalian, ASEAN,
References :
Katsumata, H,(2003) Reconstruction of Diplomatic Norms in Southeast Asia: The Case for Strict Adherence to the ASEAN Way na : Contemporary Southeast Asia 25 (1):104-121
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