New Lessons for (and from) the Old World: A study of the politicisation of regional identity in Nova Scotia &amp; North East England

Craigie, Allan

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-92139-6_11

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“…Collective action requires solidarity to enable agency well-being and protection [157,158]. Indeed, an agency that acts through a sense of solidarity develops as a sociopolitical-cultural organisation that both respects and stimulates equality and social justice [159].…”

Section: Collective Action In the Eu And Aseanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union

Rautakivi¹,

Yolles²

2023

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Regional organisations (ROs) are important in that they can enable states in their regions to pros-per and develop for improvement. Interest here lies in the European Union (EU) and the Associa-tion of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Their political development involves complex process-es for collective actions involving ingroup member RO states. To explore development, we firstly examine the rise of both the EU and ASEAN. The literature gives some attention to the behaviour-alist political approach to explain developmental differences using social organisation theory, often in terms of the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft paradigm of Tönnies. However, here we adopt a social psychology approach that distinguishes between operative structure (which directly determines behaviour), and substructure (housing normative personality deemed to be responsible for behav-ioural imperatives). This enables a relationship to be made between the Tönnies paradigm and the Collectivism-Individualism paradigm of Triandis. The theoretical approach adopted involves a complex adaptive systems model deriving from metacybernetics, and this also delivers Mindset Agency Theory as a qualitative methodology. Consistent with the general view, it is shown that the EU is more or less a coherent rational organisation, while ASEAN is more idealistic delivering pragmatic paradox. In particular, ASEAN is frequently descried as an organisation with contra-dictions, and for this reason its pathologies are explored in some detail

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Section: Collective Action In the Eu And Aseanmentioning

confidence: 99%