How do international norms bring about constitutional and administrative change in apparently unreceptive environments? In South East Asia there is sensitivity to international law intruding on domestic sovereignty; a patchy tradition of constitutional democracy; and the central vehicle for international engagement, ASEAN, largely eschews binding norms. This panel nevertheless hypothesises that international norms have brought...
Tag: <span>Damian Chalmers</span>
INTERNATIONAL NORMS AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN UNRECEPTIVE ENVIRONMENTS: THE SOUTH EAST ASIAN CONUNDRUM II (CONSTITUTIONALISM AS REGIONAL IMAGINARY)
In South East Asia there is sensitivity to international law intruding on domestic sovereignty; a patchy tradition of constitutional democracy; and the central vehicle for international engagement, ASEAN, largely eschews binding norms. A sister panel explored how ASEAN had reconfigured systems of administration around a model of the investee State. This panel explores the way...
The Regional Constitution of the Investee State
This paper argues that domestic arrangements are not only changed by formal international norms. They are also transformed by State narratives as to why these norms should have authority within their territories. This is particularly so with regional trade agreements. Authority for their wide-ranging claims to obedience cannot provided by the meagre gains supplied by...