Evaluating the Role of Regional Expert Network in Regional Security Institution Building: ASEAN-ISIS and the Establishment of the ARF

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· 발행기관 : 한국국제정치학회
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초록

This study analyzes the creation of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), a multilateral
security institution in East Asia, with the focus on the role of expert network in
the region. Although ASEAN member countries’concern about the changing
security environment of the region was the main impetus for creating new security
institution, the process of institution making was not smooth and should not be
taken for granted. This study pays attention to the role of ASEAN-ISIS, a regional
expert network, in the formation of the ARF. In short, ASEAN-ISIS provided a
new idea regarding regional security order and development of the ASEAN norm which had become the normative basis of the ARF. However, this study, unlike
previous studies which stress the role of norms in the creation of the ARF, argues
that the norm making process was not unrelated to the regional power structure
and states’strategic calculations. Norms created by ASEAN-ISIS affects the
behaviors of ASEAN members and non-region countries. At the same time the
regional power structure surely influenced the perception and the understanding
of regional security relations of the norm entrepreneur, ASEAN-ISIS. In this
context, this study argues that the approach which stresses the importance of
ideational factors should be taken with caution. An integrated approach is
necessary for the understanding of Asian regional security cooperation.

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