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Nesadurai, Helen. "Regional Economic Governance in Southeast Asia: Normalising Business Actors, Sidelining Civil Society Groups?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Mar 17, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p74510_index.html>

Nesadurai, H. E. , 2004-03-17 "Regional Economic Governance in Southeast Asia: Normalising Business Actors, Sidelining Civil Society Groups?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p74510_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper examines the prospects for participatory regional economic governance in ASEAN by using discourse analysis to probe the manner in which civil society actors have been constituted, contrasting this with the way the business groups have been constituted. The analysis reveals that while business groups have been ‘normalised’ as legitimate actors in regional economic governance, non-elite civil society groups have yet to enjoy such status. This arises from the dominant neoliberal market discourse on regional economic integration, which has discursively universalised the market as a uniform social space in which the market values of competitiveness and efficiency are the governing norms for society. Thus, the representativeness of business actors has not been questioned given their ‘expert’ status on economic matters, and they enjoy a high degree of legitimacy among national leaders and ASEAN officials as rightful participants in regional governance. Civil society actors, on the other hand, are not regarded as ‘experts’ on the economy, which, coupled with questions regarding their autonomy, transparency, and accountability, undermines their claim as rightful participants in regional economic governance. Thus, the frameworks that are being put in place to increase societal participation in regional governance are actually rather fragile, and ASEAN will continue to remain for some time an elitist regional institution, especially with regard to regional economic governance.

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