Abstract: Although the aim to promote values such as human rights is seen as an important element of the EU's normative framework and an integral part of its foreign policies and relations with other actors,1 in the context of ASEAN, economic interests have taken priority. Furthermore, the EU's promotion of economic integration has experienced more results than its promotion of political norms, which has had relatively less recognition. In Chapter 4 I argued that the EU's distinctiveness affected ASEAN's ability to view the EU's efforts to promote economic integration as relevant to the Southeast Asian region. Again, in the context of political norms, the EU's distinctiveness plays a role in its ability to promote the political norm of human rights. However, although the EU views the promotion and protection of human rights as essential norms upon which its policies are based, because human rights is not necessarily a norm specific to the EU, the EU's relevance in respect of this norm is not strong enough for it to have a robust norm entrepreneurship role in the area of political norm promotion.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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