CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Rymarenko, Margaryta |
|---|---|
| Title | Role Bargaining and Regional Orders: the Security Dynamics of EU-Russia and ASEAN-China Relations |
| Summary | This dissertation examines how and why regional orders transform into cooperative or conflictual security environments. It develops a role theory approach to the understanding of regional security dynamics, which emphasizes processes of role bargaining between key regional actors and their governance practices. It argues that the co-impact of these two processes determines whether cooperative or conflictual security patterns develop in a region. The framework is applied to examine the evolution of the intersubjective security environments in EU-Russia and ASEAN-China interaction from the end of the Cold War until 2017. It argues that the EU and Russia failed to establish a mutually accepted role relationship though bargaining, which resulted in the reproduction of a conflictual security order. In contrast, the ASEAN-China role bargaining process was successful and maintained a cooperative intersubjective security order. Deviations of regional security patterns from the nature of regional order are analyzed in the cases of EU-Russia confrontation over Ukraine in the Eastern Partnership and ASEAN-China contentions over the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea. In each case, the deviation resulted from actors’ preference for an inclusive or protectionist governance approach and their actual practices supporting or undermining the exiting governance consensus. Focusing on the processes of regional security dynamics, rather than structural or actor-specific factors, allows the fluid nature of regional security to be captured and contributes to our understanding of regional orders as spaces driven by power, interaction and imagination. |
| Supervisor | Youngmi Kim, Daniel Large |
| Department | International Relations PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/rymarenko_margaryta.pdf |
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