Selected Publications
- Nguitragool, Paruedee & Rüland, Jürgen (2014 forthcoming): ASEAN and its Cohesion as an Actor in International Forums – Reality, Potential and Constraints, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Huotari, Mikko & Rüland, Jürgen (2014 forthcoming): Context, Concepts and Comparison in Southeast Asian Studies, Special Issue, Pacific Affairs.
- Huotari, Mikko, Rüland, Jürgen & Schlehe, Judith (eds.) (2014 forthcoming): Reflecting Methodology in Southeast Asian Studies, Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Rüland, Jürgen (2014): “Constructing Regionalism Domestically: Local Actors and Foreign Policymaking in Newly Democratized Indonesia,” Foreign Policy Analysis 10(2): 181-2001.
- Rüland, Jürgen (2014): “The limits of democratizing interest representation: ASEAN’s regional corporatism and normative challenges,” European Journal of International Relations 20(1): 237-261.
- Keßler, C. and Rüland, J. (2008): Give Jesus a Hand! Charismatic Christians: Populist Religion in the Philippines, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 210 pages.
- Rüland, J., Jürgenmeyer, C., Nelson, M.L. & Ziegenhain, P. (2005): Parliaments and Political Change in Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 324 pages.
- Rüland, J., Schubert, G., Schucher, G., & Storz, C. (eds.) (2008): Asia-Europe Relations: Building Block or Stumbling Block for Global Governance?, London: Routledge, 293 pages.
- Hänggi, H., Roloff, R., & Rüland, J. (eds.) (2006): Interregionalism and International Relations, London: Routledge, 364 pages.
- Rüland, J., Hanf, T. & Manske, E. (eds.) (2006): U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Third World. A Post-Cold War Assessment, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 269 pages.
- Hoadley, S. & Rüland, J. (eds.) (2006): Asian Security Re-Assessed, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 381 pages.
- Rüland, J. (2009): Deepening ASEAN Cooperation through Democratization? The Indonesian Legislature and Foreign Policymaking,” in: International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 9, No. 3, September, S. 373-402.
- Jetschke, A. & Rüland, J. (2009): Decoupling Rhetoric and Practice: The Cultural Limits of ASEAN Cooperation, in: The Pacific Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 179-203.
- Rüland, J. & Jetschke, A. (2008): 40 Years of ASEAN: Perspectives, Performance and Lessons for Chance, in: The Pacific Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, December, pp. 397-409.
- Kessler, C. & Rüland, J. (2006): Responses to Rapid Social Change: Populist Religion in the Philippines, in: Pacific Affairs, Vol. 79, No.1, pp. 73-96.
FRIAS Project
Democratizing Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia. (2014-2015)
With the “ASEAN Way,” SEA countries have cultivated an exclusivist, state-centered and elitist cooperation culture. The underlying repository of cooperation norms became contested with the devastating effects of the Asian Financial Crisis. The objective of this study is threefold: It seeks (a) to trace the ideational origins of the currently discussed concepts of a “people-oriented ASEAN,” (b) explore how they localize the European “gold standard” of regional integration as well as competing concepts of an “alternative regionalism” emanating from Latin America and Africa and (c) assess as to what extent processes of localization affect regional cohesion.
Constructing Regionalism Domestically: Local Actors and Foreign Policymaking in Indonesia (2010-2011)
The project studies the changing identity of Indonesia’s foreign policy. At the centre stands the question which role Southeast Asian regionalism still plays in the view of major stakeholders of the Indonesian foreign policy community. Since its formation in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been a cornerstone of Indonesia’s foreign policy. With the democratization of the country following the resignation of President Suharto in 1998, Indonesian foreign policy making also went through a reform process and is today much more participatory and pluralistic than in the days of Suharto’s New Order. These changes gave rise to an increasing criticism of ASEAN’s state-centric, elitist and top-down policy making which is epitomized in the ASEAN Way as the repository of ASEAN’s norms of regional cooperation. This criticism crystallized in the ratification debate on the ASEAN Charter which many Indonesians hope would initiate a major reform of ASEAN, making it more similar to the EU as the world’s most advanced model of regional integration. Based on a bottom-up variant of Acharya’s localization theory the project explores from which ideational sources societal stakeholders such as the legislature, the academe, civil society, the business sector and the military draw in the search for an adequate role of Indonesia in the region, how they frame their arguments and what impact they have on official government policies.