Regional Organizations in International Society ASEAN, the EU and the Politics of Normative Arguing /

• Main Author: Spandler, Kilian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
• Subjects: Political communication.; Comparative politics.; European Union.; Asia-Politics and government.; Regionalism.; Political Communication.; Comparative Politics.; European Union Politics.; Asian Politics.

This book explores the normative foundations of ASEAN and the EU. It revives the history of the two organizations in an in-depth narrative of the protracted arguments surrounding their establishment, legal integration and enlargement. While political actors used norms to legitimize their ideas for i...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The politics of normative arguing in regional organizations
• 3. Decolonization: setting the stage for regionalism
• 4. Founding years: building regional organizations in post-colonial spaces
• 5. Legal integration: regionalizing judicial authority
• 6. Enlargement: redefining regional boundaries
• 7. Conclusion.