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2022-9

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İrfanoğlu, Eren

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This dissertation aims to clarify the foreign policy role of Indonesia in the ASEAN Way of regionalism since the establishment of the organization in 1967. By taking the agent (Indonesia) - structure (ASEAN Way) relations at the core of the inquiry, the dissertation argues that Indonesia has developed a communication hub role that facilitates communication among the ASEAN member states in light of the structural demand. This role entails the layers of maintaining the group unity, setting the group vision and agenda, and representing the group in extra-regional scales. After evaluating these three layers through a set of foreign policy cases of Indonesia, the dissertation examines the communication hub role of Indonesia in the framework of the South China Sea disputes through the initiation of the workshops on managing potential conflicts in the South China Sea, the establishment of Code of Conduct on South China Sea, and the Joint Communique failure in 2012. The dissertation concludes that the communication hub role of Indonesia and the ASEAN Way of regionalism are mutually constitutive constructs. While the normative character of the ASEAN Way enables Indonesia to perform its role, the role of Indonesia enables ASEAN Way to sustain. In this sense, although the recent rise of Indonesia provides minor diversions in Indonesia’s foreign policy inclinations in terms of increasing nationalism under the rule of Joko Widodo, Indonesia continues to perform and even develops its communication hub role in the ASEAN matters.

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Indonesia, ASEAN Way, South China Sea, Foreign Policy Roles, Regionalism

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99500

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis