Jürgen Rüland

Bio: Jürgen Rüland is an academic researcher from University of Freiburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Southeast asian & Global governance. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 73 publications receiving 1104 citations. Previous affiliations of Jürgen Rüland include Keio University.

ASEAN and the Asian crisis: theoretical implications and practical consequences for Southeast Asian regionalism

Abstract: The following article joins the debate about the theoretical and empirical implications of the Asian crisis on Southeast Asian regionalism. It argues that the realist-institutionalist dichotomy does not provide a fruitful framework of analysis. ASEAN policies are characterized by a policy mix, albeit one that is influenced by a strong dose of realism - a tendency that has been exacerbated by the Asian crisis. The crisis has thrown ASEAN's collective identity into deep disarray - and thus also questions constructivist approaches. Departing from these theoretical issues the article traces ASEAN responses to the crisis in three key areas: economic cooperation, enlargement and values. The article concludes with a few lessons for regionalism which may be derived from the Asian crisis.

Interregionalism and international relations

Abstract: List of tables ix List of contributors xi Preface xiii List of abbreviations xv PART I Introduction 1 1 Interregionalism: A new phenomenon in international relations HEINER HANGGI, RALF ROLOFF AND JURGEN RULAND 3 PART II The concept of interregional relations 22 2 Interregionalism in theoretical perspective: State of the art RALF ROLOFF 23 3 Interregionalism as a multifaceted phenomenon: In search of a typology HEINER HANGGI 48 PART III The geography of interregional relations 72 Asia-America relations 4 The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Transregionalism with a new cause? VINOD K. AGGARWAL AND ELAINE KWEI 73 5 The Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC): Embryonic interregionalism LINDA LOW 103 Asia-Europe relations 6 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union: Limited interregionalism ALFREDO C. ROBLES, JR. 117 7 The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process: Beyond the triadic political economy? CHRISTOPHER M. DENT 144 Transatlantic relations 8 The new Transatlantic interregionalism and the end of the Atlantic Alliance CHARLES A. KUPCHAN 170 9 The new Transatlantic interregionalism: Balanced or hegemonic? WERNER LINK 202 Europe-Latin America relations 10 The European Union's relations with MERCOSUR: The issue of interregional trade liberalization JORG FAUST 208 11 Europe-Latin America (EU-LAC) relations: Toward interregional coalition-building? ANDREW CRAWLEY 230 Africa-Europe relations 12 The European Union and Southern Africa: Interregionalism between vision and reality HERIBERT WEILAND 256 13 The Africa-Europe (Cairo summit) process: An expression of "symbolic politics" GORM RYE OLSEN 281 PART IV Comparative aspects and special cases 14 Comparing interregionalism: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) HANNS W. MAULL AND NURIA OKFEN 311 15 Beyond transregionalism: Monetary regionalism in East Asia HERIBERT DIETER AND RICHARD HIGGOTT 342 16 "Imagined" interregionalism: Europe's relations with the African, Carribbean and Pacific States (ACP) MARTIN HOLLAND 376 17 Hemispheric interregionalism: Power, domestic interests, and ideas in the Free Trade Association of the Americas (FTAA) STEFAN A. SCHIRM 408 18 Between regionalism and transregionalism: The Indian Ocean Rim - Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) CHRISTIAN WAGNER 431 PART V Conclusion 19 Interregionalism: An unfinished agenda JURGEN RULAND 448 Bibliography 481 Index -

Decoupling rhetoric and practice: the cultural limits of ASEAN cooperation

Abstract: Why have ASEAN member states declared and why do they continue to declare their intention to enhance cooperation and devise projects when implementation lags behind their rhetoric? Why do they rhetorically commit themselves to cooperation, when they continue to stick to self-interested policies to the detriment of ASEAN's collective interest? And given these diverging practices, how likely is it that the objective of a more legalized and binding cooperation associated with the recently ratified ASEAN Charter is being implemented? This article draws attention to ASEAN's hybrid or dual character of international cooperation, consisting of the emulation of the European integration project and the persistence of deeper cultural strata of Southeast Asia's cooperation project that determine the limits of cooperation: Southeast Asia's social structure and political culture that have not produced those mechanisms that might facilitate international cooperation. If our explanation is correct that cooperat...

The limits of democratizing interest representation: ASEAN’s regional corporatism and normative challenges

Abstract: This article addresses the problem of interest representation in regional organizations. Departing from a theory-guided four-dimensional typology, the study explores how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) responded to normative challenges of its system of interest representation. The findings suggest that ASEAN has skilfully countered external democracy promotion and domestic pressures for democratizing regional governance through variable strategies including rejection, isomorphic adaptation and localization. The multiple strategies employed by the grouping have largely kept intact its �cognitive prior� which rests on a blending of imported European and older local organicist ideas. Given the resilience of this cognitive prior, the prospects for a wholesale liberal-pluralist transformation of ASEAN�s system of interest representation appear dim.

The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)

Abstract: What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.