NORM IN ASEAN
Week 11
WHAT IS NORM?/ORDER
The way they do
 They way they relate each other
 “inter subjective framework for interaction and
socialization ”
 Informal/formal rule
 Written/unwritten agreement
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WHY DISCUSS ABOUT REGIONAL NORMS
Tension between Universal value and regional
value
 ex. Cooperative security (CSCE) can not apply
to ASEAN, reject by China.
 US bilateral relations rather than hegemony
 Regionalisation is flourish when realism and
neoliberalism is not matter.
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CONTINUE……
Non intervention for domestic
 Appreciate to State sovereignty is high
 Less interdependence, economy
 Voting is not the modus operandi
 ASEAN is not balancer
 ASEAN is not phenomenon of BoP.
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CONTINUE
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Multilateral institution building not legalistic,
formal, but more sociological and intersubjective
WHY STUDY NORMS/IDENTITY
(THEORETICAL)
Realism view can not comprehensively apply in
ASEAN
 Material can not explain
 Neoliberalism can not explain successfully
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SOME NORMS IN ASEAN
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ASEAN way
Consensus
Avoiding conflict “non-intervention policy”
Save the face
Musyawarah mufakat
Informality
Flexible engagement
Enhance interaction
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPEN
REGIONALISM/COOPERATIVE SECURITY
Inclusive
 Non discrimination
 Transparency
 Using consultancy
 Dialogue
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SOFT REGIONALISM/FLEXIBLE
CONSENSUS
 Informal
 Avoidance
of excessive institutionalization
 Ad hoc rather than permanent
 Concept and practice consensus/not
unanimity
 Concept five minus one.
 Musyawarah mufakat
 Not airing the differences in public
 Thinking multilateral but adopt bilateral
 pragmatic
THE IMPACT/CONCLUSION
Process orientated, rather than outcome
structural change
 Identity driven than interest driven
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QUESTION
What is ASEAN?
 Mechanism of ASEAN
 ASEAN Way
 Efektivitas ASEAN way. Permanent?
 Financial
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