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Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?
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Abstract States often pool their sovereignty, capacity and resources to provide regionally specific public goods, such as security or trade rules, and regional organisations play important roles in international relations as institutions that attempt to secure peace and contribute to achieving other similar ... view more
States often pool their sovereignty, capacity and resources to provide regionally specific public goods, such as security or trade rules, and regional organisations play important roles in international relations as institutions that attempt to secure peace and contribute to achieving other similar global policy goals. We observe failures occurring in these
arrangements and activities in two areas: substance and image. To analytically account for this, we distinguish four modes of substance and image change and link these to specific types of failure and (lack of) learning. To empirically
ground and test our assumptions, we examine instances of image failure in ASEAN (political/security policy) and substantive policy failure in EU labour migration policy. In so doing, this article contributes to several different fields of study and concepts that have hitherto rarely engaged with one another: analyses of policy failure from public policy, and regional integration concerns from area studies and international relations. We conclude with suggestions for ways forward to further analyse and understand failures at the international and supranational levels. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
policy implementation; labor migration; EU; international relations; supranational relations; immigration policy; supranationality; security policy; evaluation; ASEAN; regional integration; international organization; international politics; political alliance
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
European Politics
Free Keywords
Regionalorganisation;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 50-61
Journal
Politics and Governance, 4 (2016) 3
Issue topic
Supranational Institutions and Governance in an Era of Uncertain Norms
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution