CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Craciun, Robert Marius |
|---|---|
| Title | The Political Chemistry of the Institutionalization of Human Rights in ASEAN |
| Summary | The aim of this paper is to explain the regional institutionalization of human rights in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. A suited, compatibilistic version of new institutionalism, provided by S. Bell in 2011, is used to find the cause for the 2009 inauguration of the controversial ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights. M. Archer’s 1995 cyclic frame of the (dialectical) cohabitation of actors and institutions guides the analysis of: each member state’s initial circumstances (in the first phase of the cycle), the domestic-level interactions within each member state and the regional-level interaction between the ten states (in the second phase of the cycle), and finally the regional crystallization of institutions (i.e. the elaboration of the third phase of the cycle). This paper succeeds to provide a theoretically consistent explanation for each veto powered member states’ agreement to institutionalize human rights in the ASEAN. The employed framework allows for case-fit explanations that are more precise than what the international relations doctrines of realism, liberalism and constructivism provide. Furthermore, while these doctrines fail to explain Singapore’s and Myanmar’s surprising pro-votes, this framework reveals the causes for a. Singapore’s shift from the role of protector of Asian values to its compromise to form the AICHR and b. Myanmar’s successful persuasion by its fellow member states, as a slight evolution of the non-interference principle of the ASEAN integration unit. |
| Supervisor | Meszerics, Tamas |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/craciun_robert.pdf |
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