The World is Outraged": Legitimacy in the Making of the ASEAN Human Rights Body

Poole, Avery

doi:10.1355/cs37-3b

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“…In the final part I show how the model, with the new variables from PPoHR, can be used to interpret the actions of AICHR representatives to reveal how they are seeking to uphold member states commitments to human rights and even lay the groundwork for their compliance. This adds to the literature on AICHR, which is primarily concerned with why and how it was created (Munro, 2011;Poole, 2015;Tan, 2011a;Tan, 2011b).…”

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From commitment to compliance: ASEAN's human rights regression?

Collins

2018

The Pacific Review

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Whether it is the persecution of the Rohingya, the disappearance of human rights activists, the general limiting of freedom of speech across the region, or the resumption of the arbitrary use of the death penalty, Southeast Asia can be said to be facing a human rights crisis. This human rights crisis is though occurring at a time when the region's institution, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), has never been so interested in human rights. After a lengthy period of time in which ASEAN either ignored, or paid lip service to human rights, the Association has created a human rights bodythe ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)and adopted an ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD). In this article I utilise the Spiral Model to explain how, when ASEAN member states are regressing in their commitment to human rights, an intergovernmental body continues to promote their commitment and lay the ground work for their compliance.

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confidence: 92%

“…On the importance of external legitimacy in the creation of AICHR seePoole (2015).9 On the 13-14 December 2017 in Da Nang, Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Nha, the Vietnamese AICHR Representative, held an AICHR Regional Workshop on Enhanced Access to Education for Children with Disabilities. This was held back-to-back with the 4th meeting of…”

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From commitment to compliance: ASEAN's human rights regression?

Collins

2018

The Pacific Review

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“…Past research has already explored ASEAN's legitimacy from various standpoints (Ba, 2013; Narine, 2004; Poole, 2015; Stubbs, 2019). Whereas Narine (2004) regards uncertainty about domestic political legitimacy as the key variable explaining the reluctance of Asia-Pacific states including ASEAN members to create strong regional institutions, Poole (2015) investigates ASEAN's legitimacy from its commitments to human rights affairs.…”

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ASEAN and Great Power Rivalry in Regionalism: From East Asia to the Indo-Pacific

Yoshimatsu

2022

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which serves as the linchpin of regionalism in East Asia, is facing a new challenge of great power politics. This article explores ASEAN's position in and strategy for taking cooperative regional initiatives by referring to the management of confrontational politics between rival states. It explains ASEAN's handling of great power politics theoretically by impartial enmeshment for managing great powers’ material interests and moral legitimacy in developing specific ideational frameworks. This article argues that ASEAN managed great powers’ rivalry by enmeshing them into its regional initiatives impartially and maintaining organisational legitimacy by developing systems of socio-cultural norms. It also contends that ASEAN needs, in envisioning the future of Indo-Pacific regionalism, to extend its strategic reach through alignments with other parties and enhance moral legitimacy by deepening and broadening normative frameworks for advancing collective interests for the Indo-Pacific region.

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“…On ASEAN's external legitimacyhow actors external to the grouping perceive and assess ita second group of studies have examined specific liberal policy shifts that occurred after the Asian financial crisis of the late-1990s and argued these have been driven by the grouping's desire for legitimacy from external critics. For example, it has been argued that ASEAN's recent human rights reforms are an attempt to re-legitimate the grouping with external audiences after concerns over rights abuses, notably in Myanmar (Ba, 2013;Katsumata, 2009;Poole, 2015). Poole, for example, argues that ASEAN officials 'believed that creating a human rights body was an important mechanism to improve the legitimacy of ASEAN and its norms, as perceived by extra-regional actors' (Poole, 2015, p. 357).…”

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Interpreting Legitimation Through Participation: The ASEAN Civil Society Conference

Gerard

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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The dynamics of the relationship between political participation and legitimacy have received limited attention, despite the widely held view that the former contributes to the latter. This article advances conceptualizations of this relationship by demonstrating how participatory innovations can be analysed as processes of legitimation. Studies of participation highlight how institutional actors define the terms of participation, but do not attend to how these terms function in constructing legitimacy. Studies of legitimation, conversely, emphasize participation but pay limited attention to how participatory innovations form. Building on these linkages, the article describes how the modes of participation framework can be used to evaluate the legitimating potential of participatory innovations and demonstrates this in the case of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Civil Society Conference. The article demonstrates that more participation does not necessarily increase legitimacy, and calls for greater attention to what is being legitimated and to whom through participatory innovations.

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The World is Outraged": Legitimacy in the Making of the ASEAN Human Rights Body

Cited by 20 publications

References 28 publications

From commitment to compliance: ASEAN's human rights regression?

From commitment to compliance: ASEAN's human rights regression?

ASEAN and Great Power Rivalry in Regionalism: From East Asia to the Indo-Pacific

Interpreting Legitimation Through Participation: The ASEAN Civil Society Conference

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