Anja Jetschke

• Dr. rer. sc. pol
• Professor at University of Göttingen

This forum seeks to honor the contributions of a scholar who has greatly influenced international relations (IR) scholarship on transnational relations and constructivist research: Thomas Risse. Best known for his pathbreaking studies on the importance of transnational actors, the power of international norms and ideas in international relations, a...

Prophets of Deceit erscheint erstmals 1949 in New York als Band V der von Horkheimer herausgegebenen Studies in Prejudice. Die von Leo Löwenthal unter Mitarbeit des Publizisten und Übersetzers Norbert Guterman erstellte Studie beschäftigt sich mit isolationistischen und antisemitischen Agitatoren in den Vereinigten Staaten in der Ära der Great Depr...

How similar are the institutional designs of regional organizations (ROs)? Is there a trend toward particular designs such as the European Union's, or is there greater institutional variety as more regions have created an increasing number of ROs? Which designs have spread through the system, and which remain idiosyncratic? To answer these question...

Why do states design regional organizations with courts and parliaments? Is it indeed the case that states establish them because they expect these organs to exert some kind of democratic control over executives? Undoubtedly, this is an important question given that politicians and political scientists alike regularly lament the lack of democratic...

The question of the significance of ASEAN is an important one. Stubbs' observation that different standards have been used to assess the organization is right to the point. This article critically discusses the merits of Stubbs approach and his findings. Our response argues that the binary discussion about ASEAN’s relevance should be replaced by mo...

Why do non-democratic governments commit to human rights on a regional level? We argue that the negative externalities of political repression, operationalized as large amounts of transnational refugee flows, affect states’ willingness to commit to human rights. Neighbouring governments commit to human rights to send a signal to their repressive ne...

What is the nature of the BRICS’ countries demands regarding the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the most important institution governing the international system of collective security? Taking the Security Council as a crucial case, this chapter addresses the authority of international organizations and their politicization in the issue ar...

This chapter addresses the authority of the United Nations Security Council and its politicization by the BRICS. In particular, it explores the patterns of contestation for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect. How do the BRICS position themselves towards these two issues and how do they justify their...

Is there a trend toward the regionalization of peacekeeping? Does regionalization undermine the United Nations (UN) system of collective security? To answer these questions, we present an innovative dataset of peace operations. Covering the 1947–2016 period, the dataset captures every UN and non-UN peace operation, information on mission type, the...

Comparative regionalism has been an expanding field of research in recent years. While the literature on regional organizations (ROs) has included diffusion in its research agenda, current data gathering efforts do not sufficiently reflect the conceptual and methodological consequences of this approach. The Comparative Regional Organizations Projec...

ASEAN, Burmese Refugees, and Human Rights ASEAN adopted a human rights declaration in 2012. In 2016, the Malaysian Prime Minister publicly criticized the human rights situation in Burma. The policies of the government of Myanmar towards ethnic and religious minorities have led to refugee flows and to challenges for the states hosting refugees. Regi...

Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict: Military Involvement in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. By Mello Patrick . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 259p. $110.00 cloth, $24.99 paper. - Volume 15 Issue 1 - Anja Jetschke

Comparative regionalism has been an expanding field of research among scholars interested in regional integration and international organizations in recent years. While the literature on regional organizations has included diffusion in its research agenda, current data gathering efforts do not reflect the conceptual and methodological consequences...

What drives institutional reforms in regional organisations? And what explains the institutional design of ASEAN? Despite many differences, conventional approaches to the institutional design of regional organisations more generally and ASEAN in particular are united in regarding them as either determined by factors endogenous to the region − such...

Das Kapitel vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen zu den empirischen Trends und Entwicklungen der globalen internationalen Beziehungen zwischen 1815 und 1919 mit dem Ziel, einen Überblick über die zentralen empirischen Veränderungen in diesem Zeitraum zu verschaffen, die die internationalen Beziehungen beeinflusst haben. Es beschreibt und analysiert die...

Dieses Kapitel vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen zu den empirischen Trends und Entwicklungen der globalen internationalen Beziehungen zwischen 1945 bis heute. Es beschreibt die Entwicklung des Ost-West-Konflikts und seine globalen Auswirkungen, identifiziert dessen Phasen und zeigt, welche Effekte die zentralen empirischen Trends – Blockbildung und D...

Ausgehend von dem historischen Überblick der Einheiten 1 und 2 beantwortet diese Einheit die grundlegende Frage: Was sind internationale Beziehungen? Das Kapitel unterscheidet zwischen dem grundlegenden Charakteristikum internationaler Politik im Vergleich zu innerstaatlicher Politik, definiert den Gegenstandsbereich und erläutert, warum sich die D...

Why are there clones of the European Union (EU) in Africa and the Caribbean, i.e. regional organizations that are very similar to the institutional design of the EU? Why do regional organizations (RO) in general develop similar goals such as common markets or mechanisms of intervention within and across regions? Questioning the standard explanation...

Wir befinden uns in einem Zeitalter der Regionalisierung der internationalen Beziehungen, wie aber werden Regionalismus und Regionalisierung in vergleichender Perspektive untersucht? In Anbetracht der Vielfalt an Konzepten und Zugängen zu diesem wiederbelebten Forschungsfeld definiert dieser Beitrag zunächst zentrale Konzepte (Regionalisierung, Reg...

Francis Fukuyama ist ein am 27. Oktober 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, geborener amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler und politischer Ökonom. 2013 war er Nomellini Senior Fellow am Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies und forschte am Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law der Stanford University. Fukuyama hat seinen Bachel...

Why are there clones of the European Union (EU) in Africa and the Caribbean, i.e. regional organizations that are very similar to the institutional design of the EU? Why do regional organizations (RO) in general develop similar goals such as common markets or mechanisms of intervention within and across regions? Are such similarities the outcome of...

Wir befinden uns in einem Zeitalter der Regionalisierung der internationalen Beziehungen, wie aber werden Regionalismus und Regionalisierung in vergleichender Perspektive untersucht? In Anbetracht der Vielfalt an Konzepten und Zugängen zu diesem wiederbelebten Forschungsfeld definiert dieser Beitrag zunächst zentrale Konzepte (Regionalisierung, Reg...

The field of regionalism has been flourishing for some time. Amitav Acharya has been a persistent and powerful voice in the field, and he has contributed to and actively shaped paradigmatic debates within it. His theoretically sophisticated and contextually grounded approach to Southeast Asia's regional order and beyond has inspired countless schol...

The field of regionalism has been flourishing for some time. Amitav Acharya has been a persistent and powerful voice in the field, and he has contributed to and actively shaped paradigmatic debates within it. His theoretically sophisticated and contextually grounded approach to Southeast Asia's regional order and beyond has inspired countless schol...

On 18 November 2012, members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) took the historical step of issuing an ASEAN Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration is only the last of a number of steps expressing ASEAN’s commitment to human rights. This commitment first became visible in the ASEAN Charter of 2007 and promised that the regi...

In the post-World War Two era, regional organizations have proliferated. The accompanying literature focuses on analysing the drivers and effects of regionalism, but has, to date, largely neglected a series of puzzling macro-phenomena: the marked spatial and temporal clustering of regional organizations, as well as similarities in their institution...

The Power of Human Rights (published in 1999) was an innovative and influential contribution to the study of international human rights. At its center was a 'spiral model' of human rights change which described the various socialization processes through which international norms were internalized into the domestic practices of various authoritaria...

The Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held their annual summit from 17 to 18 November 2012 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Analysis European Union (EU) decision-makers have paid relatively little attention to the ASEAN region despite entering into a series of important agreements with ASEAN as a whole and with individ...

This chapter examines the aims and scope of the EU’s regional integration support (RIS) and the achievements it has had in Southeast Asia. ASEAN invited the EU to support its aim to achieve ASEAN economic integration in September 2003. In parallel to this programme, ASEAN has undergone considerable transformation. It has revamped its institutional...

Given its distinctive structure and norms, is ASEAN's recent institutionalisation an instance of diffusion from the EU to ASEAN? Or do we observe adaptation to changes in the external and domestic environments of ASEAN states that are unrelated to, or independent of, the EU? Or is there some combination of both at work here – diffusion and adaptati...

The number of regional organizations and regional trade agreements has risen sharply since the 1990s. In its wake, comparative research on regionalism has seen a revival. An important strand of this literature asks about the drivers of these developments, but has to date largely neglected a puzzling phenomenon: the similarities between regional org...

Why do regional organizations share a number of key institutions and policies? Why do regional organizations like the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) or the Carribean Community (CARICOM) look like the European Union? And why do we find the norms of the Helsinki Final Act in treaties of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (...

In recent years, influential studies have shown that the activities of human rights organizations are central in convincing violating governments to improve their practices. Yet some governments continue to get away with human rights violations despite mobilizations against them. In Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines, An...

This article provides a new piece for two of the puzzles of institutionalized cooperation in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). First, with regard to the organization's four decades of existence, there has always been a marked gap between ASEAN's rhetorical goals of cooperation and its actual achievements. What explains these systemati...

Why have ASEAN member states declared and why do they continue to declare their intention to enhance cooperation and devise projects when implementation lags behind their rhetoric? Why do they rhetorically commit themselves to cooperation, when they continue to stick to self-interested policies to the detriment of ASEAN's collective interest? And g...

In this introduction, the editors trace the increasing theoretical diversity of ASEAN research and discuss the contributions to this issue against the current state of the art. Contributions confirm the post-Asian crisis advancement of constructivist scholarship, but by also analyzing ASEAN from the Liberal and English school perspectives, the arti...

Öffentlichkeit zählt zu einem der schillerndsten und meistbemühten Begriffe in öffentlichen Debatten. Forderungen wie „Die Öffentlichkeit hat ein Recht auf Aufklärung!” oder „Das muss öffentlicher Kontrolle unterstellt werden” zeugen nicht nur von einem intuitiven Vertrauen in die „Macht von Öffentlichkeit” (Göhler 1995) und ihre aufklärerische Kra...

This chapter examines the question of how beneficial the democratization of some Southeast Asian states has been for the region as a whole. It will do so by comparing the implications of democratization for inter-state peace, which are currently being discussed in the literature with actual developments in the Southeast Asian sub-region. I particul...

Der Beitrag fasst die Ergebnisse eines Worfahops zusammen, der sich unter dem Titel »Angebot und Nachfrage in der universitären Lehre der Internationalen Beziehungen« mit den Problemen einer adressatengerechten Vermittlung von IB-Inhalten auseinander setzte. Dabei kristallisierten sich vor allem zwei Themenschwerpunkte heraus, an denen vorrangig ge...

This book celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by showing how global human rights norms have influenced national government practices in eleven different countries around the world. Had the principles articulated in the Declaration had any effect on the behavior of states towards their citizens? What are the...

Es seien Welten – so ein häufig vorgebrachter Kritikpunkt –, welche die Analyse von Kultur und die der internationalen Beziehungen trennten. Dafür werden im wesentlichen folgende drei Punkte genannt: In ihrer Universalität und Vieldeutigkeitentziehe sich Kultur der empirischen Analyse und Meßbarkeit sowie der Feststel-lung kausaler Zusammenhänge (F...

This paper seeks to explain the contradictory pattern of cooperation within ASEAN. To do so, it starts from a conventional empirical puzzle: Why do ASEAN member states translate their intent of regional cooperation into institutional designs that are incapable of coping with those problems the institutions are established for? And why and how does...