TY - GEN digital ID - 131667733 TI - Regional Organizations in International Society : ASEAN, the EU and the Politics of Normative Arguing PY - 2019 SN - 9783319968964 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Political systems KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - Politics KW - Economics KW - Mass communications KW - internationale politiek KW - communicatie KW - politiek KW - Europese instellingen KW - Europese politiek KW - European Union KW - Europe KW - Asia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131667733 AB - 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 institutional change, the complex and dynamic nature of these norms also provided the breeding ground for contestation and, sometimes, institutional sclerosis and failure. Recasting these processes in an innovative English School framework, the volume makes a crucial contribution to the literature of Comparative Regionalism that goes beyond Eurocentric perspectives. Kilian Spandler is researcher at the School of Global Studies of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. ER -