ASEAN as an Actor in International Fora
Reality, Potential and Constraints

This book charts new waters in research on ASEAN by studying the role and cohesion of ASEAN in international forums.

Paruedee Nguitragool (Author), J?rgen R?land (Author)

9781107503885, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 April 2015

358 pages, 18 tables
21.5 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.57 kg

ASEAN as an Actor in International Fora addresses a blind spot in ASEAN research and in comparative regionalism studies by assessing why, how, when and to what extent ASEAN member governments achieve a collective presence in global fora. Written for academic researchers and practitioners working in areas such as international relations, political science and international law, it examines ASEAN's negotiating behavior with a novel four-point cohesion typology. The authors argue that ASEAN's 'cognitive prior' and its repository of cooperation norms have affected ASEAN's negotiation capacities, formats, strategies and cohesion in international fora. Using two case studies - one on ASEAN's cohesion in the WTO agricultural negotiations and one on UN negotiations on forced labor in Myanmar - they examine ASEAN's collective actions at different stages of negotiation, in different issue areas and in different negotiating fora. The book concludes by providing recommendations for strengthening ASEAN's international negotiation capacities.

General editors' preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Analytical framework: a cognitive approach of externalization
3. ASEAN's cognitive prior and negotiating capacities
4. ASEAN as a negotiator in global fora: stages of negotiation
5. ASEAN as an actor in global fora: negotiation strategies
6. Case studies
7. Conclusions and future options
Executive summary
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Public international law [LBB]