Positions of responsibility: A comparison of ASEAN and EU approaches towards Myanmar

Cook, Alistair David Blair

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“…Based on his study, he concludes that both ASEAN and EU approaches have no "significant impact" to changing regime (Myanmar) behaviors (Cook, 2010). Unlike ASEAN's constructive engagement approach, the European Union tends to use a 'carrot and stick' or sanction approach in dealing with Myanmar (Balossi-restelli, 2015;Jom & Sidhu, 2015).…”

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Comparative Study of the Roles of ASEAN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Responding to the Rohingya Crisis

Jati

2017

IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

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Since 2012, Southeast Asia has witnessed the human rights tragedy of the Rohingya people of Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have been displaced from their homes and traveled to refugee facilities in Myanmar and Bangladesh, while others have been stranded on the Andaman Sea. The Rohingya crisis is perhaps the most horrific human rights tragedy after the crisis in Vietnam in the 1970s. As the crisis has developed, international communities, including ASEAN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), have responded to the crisis. As the main regional organization, ASEAN has been hoped to elucidate the crisis tactically through peaceful means. OIC, meanwhile, has been expected to join humanitarian action using a diplomatic approach to other international humanitarian bodies, including the UNHCR. However, it is obvious that ASEAN's response to the crisis has been limited to diplomatic oration and failed to prevent a wider crisis. For OIC, its humanitarian solidarity has lacked access to the target community. Therefore, this paper would like to attempt a comparative analysis to describe the central inquiry; how have ASEAN and OIC responded to the Rohingya crisis? This analysis involves studying ASEAN and OIC publications and related references. The initial argument of this paper is that both organizations have given reasonable responses to the crisis, but have been unable to halt its advance.

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Comparative Study of the Roles of ASEAN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Responding to the Rohingya Crisis

Jati

2017

IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

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“…Even before these developments, however, ASEAN had often been judged according to the state of human rights and democracy within its member states and its contribution to improving the state of human rights and democracy (Ciorciari, 2012). The main example of this being ASEAN's inability to engender concrete changes in Myanmar (Davies, 2012;Cook, 2010).…”

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“…(ASEAN, 2009b) ASEAN's increased willingness to address the internal concerns of Myanmar was once again demonstrated during the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in 2008. It managed to successfully mediate between the SPDC and the UN to convince the SPDC to allow foreign aid workers into Myanmar and managed the international humanitarian efforts employed to address the disaster (Cook, 2010).…”

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The EU, ASEAN and Interregionalism

Allison

2015

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Thanks to consecutive rounds of enlargement and the stepwise broadening and deepening of internal integration, the EU now undeniably plays a key role in international politics, law and economics. At the same time, changes in the international system continue to pose new challenges to the EU. The range of policies implied by the EU's international 'actorness' grows with every summit, and the EU regularly 'imports' and increasingly 'exports' various policies.Against this backdrop, this book series aims to be a central resource for the growing community of scholars and policy-makers interested in understanding the interface between the EU and international affairs. It will provide indepth, cutting-edge contributions to research on the EU in international affairs by highlighting new developments, insights, challenges and opportunities. It will encompass analyses of the EU's international role, as mediated by its own Member States, in international institutions and in its strategic bilateral and regional partnerships. It will further examine the ongoing profusion of EU internal policies with external implications and the ways in which these are both driven by and feed back into international developments. Grounded in political science (and its various sub-disciplines, including International Relations and International Political Economy), law, sociology and history, the series reflects an inter-disciplinary commitment.

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“…Initially the regime was reluctant to grant access to international organizations and other bodies (Cook, 2010). However, ASEAN was able to facilitate greater access for international humanitarian agencies to those affected by the natural disaster through the Tripartite Core Group (TCG), an ASEAN-led mechanism.…”

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“…European and Asian foreign ministers had agreed on this approach only months before Myanmar's entry. The Joint Declaration of the 12th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting in Singapore in 1997 stressed that security cooperation should be deepen in issues of common concern and that the dialogue should not stop because of differences in certain areas (Cook, 2010).…”

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Normative Tensions: European Sanction vs. ASEAN’s Non-Interference in the Case of Myanmar

Robertua

2014

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AbstrakPaper ini berusaha menjelaskan relevansi antara kebijakan sanksi Uni Eropa dan kebijakan constructive engagement ASEAN. Teori NPE yang dikemukakan oleh Ian Manner ini menjadi pisau analisis yang efektif untuk menjelaskan kebijakan sanksi Uni Eropa. Artikel ini akan mengelaborasi argumentasi Thomas Diez yang menekankan refleksi identitas Uni Eropa sebagai elemen utama teori NPE. Dalam penelitian ini akan dikaji pembentukan identitas UE yang dihadapkan berlawanan dengan ASEAN. Perubahan yang terjadi Myanmar akhir-akhir ini menjadi dasar bagi UE untuk menunda sanksi. Ini menjadi pertanyaan yang menarik karena berbagai laporan dari lembaga swadaya masyarakat internasional justru menunjukkan reformasi yang terjadi di Myanmar lemah dan tidak berkelanjutan. ASEAN muncul menjadi mitra utama Myanmar dalam demokratisasi dan pembangungan hak asasi manusia di Myanmar. Keywords: Normative Power Europe, EU sanction, ASEAN, constructive engagement, Aung San Suu Kyi AbstractThis article attempted to explain the relevancy of European sanction policy and ASEAN's constructive engagement on Myanmar. In many case, normative power Europe theory which is pioneered by Ian Manners, has been an effective tool to explain the EU's sanction policy. In this article, it will emphasize Thomas Diez's postulation of the reflexivity of the EU's identity as the main aspect of NPE. Consequently, it will elaborate on how EU's identity is constructed against ASEAN who adopted constructive engagement. However, recent change in Myanmar has provoked the EU to postpone their sanction. It is puzzling because many reports from International Non-Government Organizations show that the reform in Myanmar is weak and unsustainable. ASEAN emerged as important partner for Myanmar in driving democratization and human rights regime construction in Myanmar.

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Positions of responsibility: A comparison of ASEAN and EU approaches towards Myanmar

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Comparative Study of the Roles of ASEAN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Responding to the Rohingya Crisis

Comparative Study of the Roles of ASEAN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Responding to the Rohingya Crisis

The EU, ASEAN and Interregionalism

Normative Tensions: European Sanction vs. ASEAN’s Non-Interference in the Case of Myanmar

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