Does ASEAN Exist? The Association of Southeast Asian Nations as an International Legal Person
Does ASEAN Exist? The Association of Southeast Asian Nations as an International Legal Person
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东盟存在吗？
DOI：
10.1355/9789814279550-006
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2008
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通讯作者：
Simon Chesterman
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作者：
Simon Chesterman
2008年12月15日生效的《东盟宪章》第三条规定，东盟“作为一个政府间组织，被授予法人资格”。本文考察了该协会的法律地位，以及整体是否大于（或小于）其各部分之和的政治问题。所提出的论点是，在国际一级，法律人格与其说是一种地位，不如说是一种能力：东盟现在在《宪章》中主张国际法律人格这一事实并不意味着它以前缺乏这种人格，也不意味着它现在以任何有意义的方式拥有这种人格。相反，关键问题是东盟被授予了哪些具体权力，以及这些权力是如何使用的。在这些问题上，《宪章》基本上保持沉默。
The ASEAN Charter, which entered into force on 15 December 2008, asserts in Article 3 that ASEAN "as an inter-governmental organisation, is hereby conferred legal personality". This essay examines the legal status of the Association, as well as the political question of whether the whole is greater than (or perhaps less than) the sum of its parts. The argument presented is that legal personality at the international level is less a status than it is a capacity: the fact that ASEAN now claims international legal personality in the Charter does not mean it lacked it previously, nor that it now possesses it in any meaningful way. Rather, the key question is what specific powers have been granted to ASEAN and how those powers are used. On these questions, the Charter is largely silent.