Norms in practice: people-centric governance in ASEAN and ECOWAS

Glas, Aarie; Balogun, Emmanuel Dele

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“…Krisis 1997-1998 mengekspos kelemahan negara-negara anggota ASEAN dan ASEAN sebagai organisasi regional. Bagi sebagian besar petinggi ASEAN, krisis dan reformasi demokrasi di berbagai negara terutama Indonesia menunjukkan perlunya perubahan, baik dalam proses pengambilan keputusan ASEAN maupun tujuan organisasinya (Glas and Balogun 2020). Jika kita menelusuri dalam sejarah ASEAN sendiri, terdapat gagasan bahwa ASEAN perlu melibatkan masyarakat dalam rangka memberikan manfaat yang lebih besar untuk masyarakat di kawasan.…”

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The Political Dynamics of Southeast Asia and the Identity Transformation of ASEAN in Post-Cold War and Post-Economic Crisis 1997-1998

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Maksum

2022

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In general, regional integration takes the form of political economy initiatives focused on commercial interests to achieve broader socio-political and security goals. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional organization in Southeast Asia. After the end of the Cold War, ASEAN underwent changes, especially in terms of norms, governance, and collective identity. This article aims to explain the institutional reform and transformation of ASEAN's identity as a regional organization after the end of Cold War era. Using Alexander Wendt's concept of Collective Identity, this article argues that the 1997-1998 crisis and political dynamics in Southeast Asia unraveled the weaknesses of ASEAN's traditional principles as a regional organization. This led to skepticism towards the credibility and function of ASEAN. In order to restore its image and credibility, ASEAN conducted institutional reform in some stages. The institutional reform started with conceptualizing shared ideas through the establishment of the ASEAN Community, which was then institutionalized in a set of norms through the ASEAN Charter. These institutional reforms gave birth to a common set of ideas and norms for the member states. These shared ideas and norms indicate the transformation of ASEAN's collective identity as a regional organization that is more in line with universal norms such as human rights, democracy, and good governance.

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The Political Dynamics of Southeast Asia and the Identity Transformation of ASEAN in Post-Cold War and Post-Economic Crisis 1997-1998

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2022

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“…Practices are meaningful because they enable agency by transforming background knowledge into intentional acts with social meaning. Background knowledge and practices in general do not assume uniformity or monolithic understandings of actors within the community of practice, defined here as relatively bounded groups of actors united and observable through their shared repertoires of action, common enterprise, and dense interactions (Bueger, 2019;Glas, 2018;Glas and Balogun, 2020). Nonetheless, background knowledge provides a sense and understanding of how actors interpret their agency and also how they acquire agency.…”

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“…Much has been made of the "practice-turn" in IR, with particular focus on diplomatic communities (Glas and Balogun, 2020) and actors' socially meaningful patterns of activity (Schatzki and Cetina, 2001). Practices are how we organise the world and its materials, to closing the divide between ideas and matter (Adler and Pouliot, 2011;Bueger and Gadinger, 2015).…”

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“…At the broader, organisational level, ECOWAS promotes a policy of "people-centrism" designed to make the organisation more inclusive of civil society actors, allowing civil society to shape the complexion of regional governance (Glas and Balogun, 2020). WAHO has also embraced this call as a tool to make regional health governance more self-sustaining.…”

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African Agency in Practice: Acquiring Agency and Institutional Change in the West African Health Organisation

Balogun

2021

Africa Spectrum

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This article investigates how practitioners in the West African Health Organization (WAHO) obtain and exercise autonomous political agency in the development of regional health policy. While many process-driven accounts of African agency focus on the freedom and ability of African governments and regional organisations to act and not be acted upon, the article finds that it is necessary look within these agents to examine how they are constituted and the processes in which they acquire the capacity to be agents in their external interactions. This article shows that practitioners in WAHO rely on three institutional strategies that constitute them as agents within the organisation: networking with extra-regional partners; the inclusion of civil society in regional social policy; and the development of intra-organisational linkages to create insulation from political control. Through these strategic interactions, WAHO practitioners constitute themselves as agents within the organisation as well as autonomous agents in the broader global health theatre.

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“…I center attention on issues of access and interactions within interviews. In advancing my arguments, I draw on my experience of interviewing more than 100 "elites" within diplomatic settings, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the African Union (AU), among others (Glas 2017;2018;Glas and Balogun 2020), alongside the experience of other scholars.…”

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Positionality, Power, and Positions of Power: Reflexivity in Elite Interviewing

Glas

2021

APSC

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There is growing consensus in political science methods literature that positionality is consequential for interview research in variable and important ways. At the same time, however, much of this literature reinforces a categorical distinction between elite and non-elite contexts and participants, and it assumes “elite” to be a static category that presents researchers with discrete challenges that require uniform strategies to address. This article draws on my experience in conducting interviews with more than 100 “elites” to address this divide in two ways. First, I show that the category of elite is not as monolithic as often asserted. Rather, speaking with educated and authoritative individuals is fraught with variable challenges related to positionality. Second, to address these challenges, I argue that researchers must engage in active reflexivity, interrogating the relational effects of positionality across all aspects of research. I focus particular attention on issues of access and interactions within interviews.

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Norms in practice: people-centric governance in ASEAN and ECOWAS

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The Political Dynamics of Southeast Asia and the Identity Transformation of ASEAN in Post-Cold War and Post-Economic Crisis 1997-1998

The Political Dynamics of Southeast Asia and the Identity Transformation of ASEAN in Post-Cold War and Post-Economic Crisis 1997-1998

African Agency in Practice: Acquiring Agency and Institutional Change in the West African Health Organisation

Positionality, Power, and Positions of Power: Reflexivity in Elite Interviewing

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