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Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the perspective of local actors, with Asian regional institutions as its main focus.There's no Asian equivalent of the EU or of NATO. Why has Asia, and in particular Southeast Asia, avoided such multilateral institutions? Most accounts focus on U.S. interests and perceptions or intraregional rivalries to explain the design and effectiveness of regional institutions in Asia such as SEATO, ASEAN, and the ASEAN Regional Forum. Amitav Acharya instead foregrounds the ideas of Asian policymakers, including their response to the global norms of sovereignty and nonintervention. Asian regional institutions are shaped by contestations and compromises involving emerging global norms and the preexisting beliefs and practices of local actors.Acharya terms this perspective "constitutive localization" and argues that international politics is not all about Western ideas and norms forcing their way into non-Western societies while the latter remain passive recipients. Rather, ideas are conditioned and accepted by local agents who shape the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system. Acharya sketches a normative trajectory of Asian regionalism that constitutes an important contribution to the global sovereignty regime and explains a remarkable continuity in the design and functions of Asian regional institutions.

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WHOSE IDEAS MATTER?

A VOLUME IN THE SERIES

Cornell Studies in Political Economy

edited byPeter J. Katzenstein

A list of titles in this series is available at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Whose Ideas Matter? AGENCY AND POWER IN ASIAN REGIONALISM

Amitav Acharya

Cornell University PressITHACA AND LONDON

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 2009 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Acharya, Amitav. Whose ideas matter? : agency and power in Asian regionalism / by Amitav Acharya. p. cm. — (Cornell studies in political 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—Foreign relations. 5. Asia—Politics and government—1945 I. Title. II. Series: Cornell studies in political economy. JZ5333.A27 2009 327.5—dc22 2008047453

Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publish ing of its books. Such materials include vegetablebased, lowVOC inks and acidfree papers that are recycled, totally chlorinefree, or partly composed of nonwood ﬁbers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.

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Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments

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Appendix: Key Concepts, Regional Deﬁnition Bibliography of Primary Sources Index

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171 179 183

Illustrations and Tables

Illustrations Localization in Asian Regionalism1.1 Constitutive Responses to Transnational Norms2.1 Local 3.1 Colombo Powers Reaction to SEATO 3.2 Nehru’s Reﬂections on Intervention at Bandung 4.1 Asian Construction of Non-Intervention 4.2 Normative Diffusion and Institutional Emulation in Asian Regionalism

Tables 1.1 Selected Perspectives on Asian Regionalism Trajectory of Localization and Conditions for Progress2.1 The at Regional Conferences in Asia, 1947–19553.1 Representation 3.2 Non-Intervention and Collective Defense 4.1 Selected Asian Regional Forums in the 1960s Evolution of ASEAN’s Dialogue Partnerships4.2 The Paciﬁc Community Idea, 1960–19804.3 The 4.4 Path Dependency in Asian Security Multilateralism 5.1 Cooperative Security and Collective Intervention 6.1 Inter-American Democratic Charter and the New Partnership for African Development

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6 20 52 56 74 110

2 18 39 62 88 96 102 109 135

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Acknowledgments

This book owes its origin and inspiration to my three research fellowships at Harvard University—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,HarvardUniversity(April2001);theModernAsiaSeminarSeriesatthe 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 inﬂuence 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 process. I am grateful to Jack Snyder, Chris ReusSmit, 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 article inInternational Organization). Parts of chapters 2 and 3 were

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