TY  - BOOK
AU  - SPANDLER Kilian
AU  - HARTELIUS Julia
AU  - MONTI Alva
AU  - Soderbaum Fredrik
TI  - Sovereignty scripts and regional governance: : ASEAN’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic
PY  - 2024///
KW  - ASEAN
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - SOUTHEAST ASIA
N2  - This article seeks to advance our understanding of the role of sovereignty for regional governance, with a focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). We argue that important insights into this issue can be gleaned by analyzing how ASEAN has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. Most existing research on ASEAN considers sovereignty an obstacle to effective regional governance without further interrogating it conceptually. Such a monolithic understanding fails to account for ASEAN’s variegated response to the pandemic. To develop a fuller account of the relation between sovereignty and regional governance, we engage with scholarship on sovereignty that emphasizes its performative and contextual character, and develop a framework that distinguishes four different sovereignty scripts. Drawing on expert interviews and document analysis, we show that ASEAN’s multifaceted Covid-19 response is a result of member states’ parallel enactment of diverging and overlapping sovereignty scripts, which engender competing modes of governance.
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2023.2205164
ER  -