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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory and Methodology -- 3. The "Cognitive Prior" and the European Challenge -- 4. The Indonesian Government and the ASEAN Charter -- 5. Non-Governmental Organizations and the ASEAN Charter -- 6. The Legislature and the ASEAN Charter -- 7. The Charter and the Academe -- 8. The Press and the ASEAN Charter -- 9. Business and the ASEAN Charter -- 10. Indonesian Visions of Regionalism: From Yudhoyono to Jokowi -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

Interregionalism and interregional cooperation: the case of Asia-Europe relations/ J(c)ơrgen R(c)ơland and Cornelia Storz -- Regional organizations as actors in international relations: interregionalism and asymmetric dialogues/ Mathew Doidge -- Governance, Asia-European relations and regional trade agreements/ Doris Fischer -- Interregional trade and investment between Asia and Europe: an empirical investigation/ Hanns G. Hilpert and Klaus-Jochem Kecker -- The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) and its contribution to the political management of globalization/ Howard Loewen and Dirk Nabers -- Asian-European relations: more security through inter-and transregional relations?/ Frank Umbach -- EU-Asia human rights policy: pursuing the path of institutionalism/ Martina Timmermann -- On the potentials of interregional policy cooperation: the case of Europe's participation in the Asian Development Bank/ Werner Pascha -- Merger and acquisition between Japanese and European enterprises: how to integrate different institutional regimes/ Andreas Moerke -- Beyond the taboos? The opportunities and limitations of Asian-European track-two dialogue/ Katja Freistein -- The democratization of inter- and transregional dialogues: the role of civil society, NGOs and parliaments/ Sebastian Bersick -- Main findings and conclusion: assessing the surplus value of Asia-Europe interregionalism/ Gunter Schubert

This study of the national parliaments of India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand is inspired by four major theoretical discourses: neo-institutionalism, parliamentarianism versus presidentialism, majoritarian versus consensus democracy, and transition theory. The book examines the specific role of parliaments in political decision-making, regime change, democratization, and consolidation of democracy in a comparative perspective. It argues that parliaments play a greater part in the political decision-making than is often asserted and that there is no cogent causal relationship between parliamentary performance and system of government

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The timid response of member governments of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to Russia's invasion of Ukraine has puzzled many western observers as it flagrantly violates the most basic norms of international law to which ASEAN expressly subscribes. This article seeks to provide answers to this puzzle. Informed by practice theory, the article transcends conventional realist explanations of how small and medium-sized countries respond to great power politics. Combining material and cognitive arguments, practice theory allows identifying the cultural and ideational roots of these policies and uncovering mismatches between rhetoric and agency. It suggests that, conceptualized as communities of practice, ASEAN member countries' foreign policy elites have developed a path-dependent pragmatism, which guides their response to great power politics and hence the war in Ukraine. Employing a qualitative mixed-methods approach, the empirical part of the article examines how south-east Asia's diplomatic communities of practice define pragmatism and shows that, historically, pragmatism has strongly guided their foreign policies. It traces ASEAN governments' pragmatic responses to the war in Ukraine at three levels: the national, regional and the (global) multilateral level. The article concludes that liberal proselytism does not help the West to win over ASEAN member countries to support its pro-Ukraine course.