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Feraru advances a new perspective on states' external behavior, informed by the insight into the specific experience of weak states derived from the work of Joel S. Migdal. She examines whether the common approach to internal affairs Migdal identifies manifests externally into a pattern of regional cooperative behavior.
List of contents
Part One: State Weakness, Government Vulnerability, and Regional Cooperation
1.Introduction
2.How Weak States Make for Vulnerable Leaders
3.Weak States, Vulnerable Governments, and Regional Cooperation
Part Two: Government Survival and Cooperation within ASEAN
4.Government Survival and the Meaning and Role of Sovereignty
5.ASEAN’s Decision-making Process
6.Enforcement-related Measures in ASEAN Legal Instruments
7.ASEAN’s Human Rights Regime
8.Conclusion
About the author
Atena Ştefania Feraru is a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Graduate Program in Politics of East China Normal University (Shanghai). She obtained her Ph.D. in International Politics in early 2017 from National Chung Hsing University (Taichung, Taiwan) and this book centres on her doctoral research. Atena published articles in the International Studies Review journal and the Asian Development Policy Review and her research interests include state-society relations, international relations theory, Southeast Asian politics, and non-Western regional organizations.
Summary
Feraru advances a new perspective on states’ external behavior, informed by the insight into the specific experience of weak states derived from the work of Joel S. Migdal. She examines whether the common approach to internal affairs Migdal identifies manifests externally into a pattern of regional cooperative behavior.
