CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Nachiappan, Karthik |
|---|---|
| Title | REGULATION THEORY AND ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONALISM: DEMYSTIFYING THE FORMER TO EXPLORE THE LATTER |
| Summary | Over the last two decades, investigating the genesis of institutional outcomes within the International relations discipline has been dominated by the ascension of the Constructivist paradigm. Prevailing accounts therefore attribute much importance towards actors and their propensity to alter the cognitive psyche of states and statist actors to subsequently engender policy change. Consequently, scholarship has been rather tepid towards structural factors and their likely impact. Attempting to transcend prevailing accounts, this paper propounds a dialectic explanation of institutional change that probes how social features (actors, discourses, institutions) are able to stabilize the impediments plaguing an evolving material structure anchored at the regional locus. Regulation attains significance. Employing this framework, the paper then dissects the advent of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) to illustrate that institutional change at the regional level pivots on the ability of a socio-political ensemble to regulate an evolving mode of production and the ensuing coherence between both. |
| Supervisor | Stone, Diane |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/nachiappan_karthik.pdf |
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