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Normative Power Europe and the ILO: diffusing the SDGs in Southeast Asia

Research Project

Project/Area Number 22K01383
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 06020:International relations-related
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

BACON Paul.M.  早稲田大学, 国際学術院, 教授 (40350706)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 中村 英俊  早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (80316166)
Project Period (FY) 2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywordsnormative power / SDGs / forced labour / conditionality / socialization / localization / capacity-building / norm clusters
Outline of Research at the Start

Our research project analyzes how the EU and the ILO promote the SDGs. How are these goals promoted and implemented in practice in Thailand and Indonesia? We analyze the promotion of SDGs on forced labour, human trafficking and IUU fishing, through the use of the threat of economic sanctions.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

I have published a co-edited book with Routledge, based on work I have done on this topic. The book is titled: The Sustainable Development Goals: Diffusion and Contestation in Asia and Europe, Routledge, New York, 2023. I wrote the conclusion to the book, and contributed two co-authored book chapters. One of the chapters is on the 'spiral model', the theory I am using for this JSPS project. The other is a case study on EU and ILO activity in Thailand, with regard to IUU fishing and forced labour. These publications are directly connected to this JSPS research project. I also published a co-authored article on norm diffusion theory in the Journal of Common Market Studies, one of the leading high-impact journals on EU studies. I have also made workshop presentations on the project topic.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.

Reason

I have already produced a co-authored Routledge book, and a high-impact journal article as deliverables for this project. The next stage is to look at developments in Thailand post-Covid, and new EU attempts to monitor fisheries supply chains in Southeast Asia. I also want to investigate the EU's 'fisheries yellow card diplomacy' in Vietnam, which also seems to be working successfully, and investigate the theoretical and practical connections of these cases to the 'Brussels Effect' framework, which claims that the EU is a regulatory superpower. I thus want to expand the theoretical and case study scope of this project. Finally, I want to investigate the EU and the Quad's attempts to securitize the issue of IUU fishing in the context of maritime security in the Free and Open Indo-Pacific.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

I will travel to Bangkok fall 2024 to interview existing and new contacts. I want to incorporate the latest negative developments on IUU fishing into my research. I will present a paper on norm diffusion, FOIP and IUU fishing at a regional workshop in Bangkok in November. I will also make a presentation on latest findings at a workshop in Brussels in February 2024, to an audience of EU foreign policy academics and diplomats. I will also broaden my study to include Vietnam, and I plan to carry out interviews in Hanoi in summer 2024. I expect new publications to come out of this new round of research activity before the end of this JSPS project in March 2025. In particular, I am preparing a book manuscript on EU norm diffusion which will include case studies of Thailand, Vietnam and ASEAN.

Report

(2 results)
  • 2023 Research-status Report
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2024 2023 2022

All Journal Article (1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (5 results)

  • [Journal Article] Three Decades on: Still a Capability Expectations Gap? Pragmatic Expectations towards the EU from Asia in 2020.2023

    • Author(s)
      Lai, S., Bacon, P., & Holland, M.
    • Journal Title

      JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies

      Volume: 61.2 Issue: 2 Pages: 451-468

    • DOI

      10.1111/jcms.13382

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report 2022 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Japanese expectations of the EU as a security actor in the Indo-Pacific2023

    • Author(s)
      Paul Bacon
    • Organizer
      Paper given at the EU Studies Association of the Asia-Pacific, June 2023
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The EU, strategic communication and FIMI2023

    • Author(s)
      Paul Bacon
    • Organizer
      Paper given at the Waseda EU-Japan Forum, Brussels, March 2023
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Expectations of Japanese elites on EU security norm diffusion in the Indo-Pacific2022

    • Author(s)
      Paul Bacon
    • Organizer
      Online panel at the July 2022 EUSAAP EU regional studies conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The EU as a Security Actor in the Indo-Pacific: A Japanese ‘expectations deficit’2022

    • Author(s)
      Paul Bacon
    • Organizer
      ISAS-SPF WORKSHOP THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A SECURITY ACTOR IN THE INDO-PACIFIC: PERCEPTIONS AND RESPONSES FROM THE REGION 16-17 February 2023
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Detailed findings on EU SDG diffusion in Asia2022

    • Author(s)
      Paul Bacon
    • Organizer
      Paper given at the Waseda EU-Japan Forum, Brussels, March 2023, Special Roundtable on EU Norm Diffusion and the SDGs
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] ‘The framing power of ASEAN with regard to human rights and democracy; reactive interrupted emulation of the EU’, in Levrat N. and Marchetti, R., Framing Power Europe? EU External Action in a Competitive World2024

    • Author(s)
      Paul Bacon and Elisa Narminio
    • Total Pages
      20
    • Publisher
      Routledge (forthcoming, 2024, in press)
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Book] The Sustainable Development Goals Diffusion and Contestation in Asia and Europe2023

    • Author(s)
      Paul Bacon, Mina Chiba and Frederik Ponjaert
    • Total Pages
      206
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781032072197
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report 2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Adapting and applying the ‘spiral model' to the diffusion of the SDGs. In The Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 13-29).2023

    • Author(s)
      Thais Favero Souza and Paul Bacon
    • Total Pages
      14
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781032072197
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report 2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Tackling forced labour in Thailand: The role of the EU and ILO. In The Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 127-141).2023

    • Author(s)
      Paul Bacon and Nishkhan Usayapant
    • Total Pages
      14
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781032072197
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report 2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Norm diffusion, norm constestation and the SDGs. In The Sustainable Development Goals (pp.171-181).2023

    • Author(s)
      Paul Bacon, Mina Chiba and Frederik Ponjaert
    • Total Pages
      11
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781032072197
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report 2022 Research-status Report

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Published: 2022-04-19   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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