Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?

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...

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Main Authors: Howlett, Michael, Koga, Kei, Chou, Meng-Hsuan
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-821352020-03-07T12:10:37Z Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change? Howlett, Michael Koga, Kei Chou, Meng-Hsuan School of Humanities and Social Sciences Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, image failure institutional change 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. Published version 2016-08-15T04:21:41Z 2019-12-06T14:47:22Z 2016-08-15T04:21:41Z 2019-12-06T14:47:22Z 2016 Journal Article Chou, M. H., Howlett, M.,& Koga, K. (2016). Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?. Politics and Governance, 4(3), 50-61. 2183-2463 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82135 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41128 10.17645/pag.v4i3.619 en Politics and Governance © 2016 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). 12 p. application/pdf
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institutional change
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institutional change
Howlett, Michael
Koga, Kei
Chou, Meng-Hsuan
Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?
description 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.
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Howlett, Michael
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Koga, Kei
Chou, Meng-Hsuan
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title Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?
title_short Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?
title_full Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?
title_fullStr Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?
title_full_unstemmed Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?
title_sort image and substance failures in regional organisations: causes, consequences, learning and change?
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