Version 1
: Received: 29 May 2023 / Approved: 30 May 2023 / Online: 30 May 2023 (08:53:14 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 2 June 2023 / Approved: 5 June 2023 / Online: 5 June 2023 (09:00:10 CEST)
How to cite:
Rautakivi, T.; Yolles, M. Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union. Preprints2023, 2023052091. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.2091.v2
Rautakivi, T.; Yolles, M. Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union. Preprints 2023, 2023052091. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.2091.v2
Rautakivi, T.; Yolles, M. Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union. Preprints2023, 2023052091. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.2091.v2
APA Style
Rautakivi, T., & Yolles, M. (2023). Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.2091.v2
Chicago/Turabian Style
Rautakivi, T. and Maurice Yolles. 2023 "Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.2091.v2
Abstract
Regional organisations (ROs) are important in that they can enable states in their regions to pros-per and develop for improvement. Interest here lies in the European Union (EU) and the Associa-tion of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Their political development involves complex process-es for collective actions involving ingroup member RO states. To explore development, we firstly examine the rise of both the EU and ASEAN. The literature gives some attention to the behaviour-alist political approach to explain developmental differences using social organisation theory, often in terms of the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft paradigm of Tönnies. However, here we adopt a social psychology approach that distinguishes between operative structure (which directly determines behaviour), and substructure (housing normative personality deemed to be responsible for behav-ioural imperatives). This enables a relationship to be made between the Tönnies paradigm and the Collectivism-Individualism paradigm of Triandis. The theoretical approach adopted involves a complex adaptive systems model deriving from metacybernetics, and this also delivers Mindset Agency Theory as a qualitative methodology. Consistent with the general view, it is shown that the EU is more or less a coherent rational organisation, while ASEAN is more idealistic delivering pragmatic paradox. In particular, ASEAN is frequently descried as an organisation with contra-dictions, and for this reason its pathologies are explored in some detail
Keywords
Regional organisations; Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft; Collectivism-Individualism; Cultural Agency Theory; metacybernetics; political development; social psychology; Mindset Agency Theory; normative personality; EU; ASEAN
Subject
Social Sciences, Political Science
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: Maurice Yolles
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author