Comparing regional organizations in global multilateral institutions:ASEAN, the EU and the UN

Abstract

Structural change brought about by the end of the Cold War and accelerated globalisation have transformed the global environment. A global governance complex is emerging, characterised by an ever-greater functional and regulatory role for multilateral organisations such as the United Nations (UN) and its associated agencies. The evolving global governance framework has created opportunities for regional organisations to participate as actors within the UN (and other multilateral institutions). This article compares the European Union (EU) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as actors within the UN network. It begins by extrapolating framework conditions for the emergence of EU and ASEAN actorness from the literature. The core argument of this article is that EU and ASEAN actorness is evolving in two succinct stages: Changes in the global environment create opportunities for the participation of regional organisations in global governance institutions, exposing representation and cohesion problems at the regional level. In response, ASEAN and the EU have initiated processes of institutional adaptation.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-012-0324-4
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Politics, History and International Relations
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Aston Centre for Europe
Additional Information: The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Uncontrolled Keywords: comparative regionalism,global governance,United Nations,ASEAN,EU,General Business,Management and Accounting,General Social Sciences
Publication ISSN: 1612-1031
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2024 09:57
Date Deposited: 02 Aug 2012 09:27
Full Text Link: http://www.spri ... 1583716/?MUD=MP
Related URLs: http://www.scop ... tnerID=8YFLogxK (Scopus URL)
PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2012-07
Published Online Date: 2012-04-13
Authors: Wunderlich, Uwe (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-1278-4773)

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