Book contents
- Contesting Sovereignty
- Contesting Sovereignty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Normative Contestation in Regional Organisations
- Part II The African Union
- Part III The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- 6 Human Rights ‘Protection’ in the ASEAN Charter
- 7 The ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
- 8 Extending the ‘ASEAN Minus X’ Formula
- Part IV Comparative Findings
- Appendix List of Officials Interviewed
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Extending the ‘ASEAN Minus X’ Formula
from Part III - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2021
- Contesting Sovereignty
- Contesting Sovereignty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Normative Contestation in Regional Organisations
- Part II The African Union
- Part III The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- 6 Human Rights ‘Protection’ in the ASEAN Charter
- 7 The ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
- 8 Extending the ‘ASEAN Minus X’ Formula
- Part IV Comparative Findings
- Appendix List of Officials Interviewed
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Outside human rights, the other major challenge to sovereignty of ASEAN members was the question of when sovereign interests could be bypassed – sometimes deemed necessary under the prerogative of accelerating the ASEAN Economic Community. The Eminent Persons Group tasked with making suggestions for the future charter proposed the most radical changes to ASEAN decision-making to achieve these goals, yet these were eventually rejected and the ‘ASEAN minus X’ formula was confined to the ASEAN Economic Community, only if there were consensus to do so. The control of the initiative, the use of shared norms and precedents, and other opportunities for influence played decisive roles in the eventual decision.
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- Contesting SovereigntyPower and Practice in Africa and Southeast Asia, pp. 224 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021