Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism

201 Pages·2009·2.45 MB·English

by  Amitav Acharya

WHOSE IDEAS MATTER?
A VOLUME IN THE SERIES
Cornell Studies in Pol itic al Economy
edited by Peter J. Katzenstein
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Whose Ideas
Matter?
AGENCY AND
POWER I N ASIAN REG IONALISM
Amitav Acharya
Cornell University Press
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Acharya, Amitav.
Whose ideas matter? : agency and power in Asian regionalism /
by Amitav Acharya.
p. cm. — (Cornell studies in po litic al economy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0 - 8014- 4751- 8 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Regionalism—Asia. 2. International agencies— Asia.
3. Asian cooperation. 4. Asia—F oreign relations.
5. Asia— Politics and government—1945- I. Title.
II. Series: Cornell studies in po litic al economy.
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Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables vii
Ac know ledg ments ix
1 Why Study the Norm Dynamics of Asian Regionalism? 1
2 Perspectives on Norm Diffusion 9
3 Ideas and Power: Non- Intervention and Collective Defense 31
4 Constructing Asia’s Cognitive Prior 69
5 Resistance and Change: Common Security and Collective Intervention 112
6 Conclusions, Extensions, and Extrapolations 144
Appendix: Key Concepts, Regional Defi nition 171
Bibliography of Primary Sources 179
Index 183

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Illustrations and Tables
Illustrations
1.1 Constitutive Localization in Asian Regionalism 6
2.1 Local Responses to Transnational Norms 20
3.1 Colombo Powers Reaction to SEATO 52
3.2 Nehru’s Refl ections on Intervention at Bandung 56
4.1 Asian Construction of Non- Intervention 74
4.2 Normative Diffusion and Institutional Emulation in Asian Regionalism 110
Tables
1.1 Selected Perspectives on Asian Regionalism 2
2.1 The Trajectory of Localization and Conditions for Progress 18
3.1 Repre sen ta tion at Regional Conferences in Asia, 1947–1955 39
3.2 Non- Intervention and Collective Defense 62
4.1 Selected Asian Regional Forums in the 1960s 88
4.2 The Evolution of ASEAN’s Dialogue Partnerships 96
4.3 The Pacifi c Community Idea, 1960–1980 102
4.4 Path De pen den cy in Asian Security Multilateralism 109
5.1 Cooperative Security and Collective Intervention 135
6.1 Inter- American Demo cratic Charter and the New Partnership
for African Development 166

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Ac know ledg ments
This book owes its origin and inspiration to my three research fellowships
at Harvard U niversity—with the Harvard Asia Center (2000–2001), with
the Center for Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government (2000–2002), and with the Weatherhead Center for Interna-
tional Affairs (2004–5). I am grateful to Ezra Vogel and Bill Kirby at the
Asia Center, Joe Nye and Dennis Encarnation at the Kennedy School, and
Iain Johnston and Jorge Dominguez at the Weatherhead Center for their
help and advice as well as arranging institutional support that made the re-
search and writing of this book possible. Portions of this book have been
presented as seminars at the Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs, Harvard University (April 2001); the Modern Asia Seminar Series at
the Harvard Asia Center (May 2001); the Fellows program of the Center for
Business and Government at the Kennedy School (May 2001); and the
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (November 2004). Other sem-
inars on the theme of the book have been presented at the Department of
International Relations, Australian National University (September 2001);
and the Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia
(April 2002 and May 2005). I am grateful to these institutions for arranging
a vibrant, engaging, and critical audience to test the arguments of the book.
Peter Katzenstein has been a major inspiration behind this project, and
his own work on Asian regionalism has been a central infl uence on my
work. Roger Haydon of Cornell University Press took interest in the project
from the moment I discussed it with him and offered invaluable comments
and guidance through the review proc ess. I am grateful to Jack Snyder,
Chris R eus-S mit, Brian Job, Paul Evans, Anthony Milner, John Hobson, Etel
Solingen, Michael Barnett, Richard Price, and Martha Finnemore, all of
whom commented on earlier drafts of chapters 2 and 5 (which appeared as
an a rticle in International Org an iz at ion). Parts of chapters 2 and 3 w ere

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