| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, January 30, 2014 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Asian Insitute PhD Seminar Series
How can we understand long-term regional cooperation among illiberal states? Despite having a number of conflict-generating conditions, such as regime change and instability, territorial disputes, a lack of democratic development, and variation in hegemonic engagement, the regions of Southeast Asia and South America have experienced long-term regional security cooperation. It is the contention of this paper, and the larger dissertation project of which it is part, that regional stability cannot be understood alone by reference to domestic interests, power politics, or successful institutional creation in a functionalist sense. Rather, the development of habituated dispositions have profound constitutive effect and assist in explaining long-term cooperation.
Sociological and psychological literature suggest that social interaction is shaped by self-evident knowledge and routine action, yet the logics of habit and practicality have only recently been introduced to IR (Hopf 2002; Pouliot 2010). Building on nascent work in IR and insights from sociology, this paper has two aims. First, it articulates the puzzle of long-term regional stability in Southeast Asia (1960s-1990s) and South America (1880s-1990s). In neither case do traditional theories focused on materialist nor liberal variables provide substantive insights. Second, it seeks to provide the foundations for a novel explanation that centres of the norms and habits of regional interactions, and the cognitive and institutional mechanisms through which they have effect.
Aarie Glas is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His doctoral research explores the normative and habitual foundations of regional diplomacy in Southeast Asia and South America. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and McMaster University.
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