Sources of Legitimacy of Regional Organizations in the Global South

在民族国家以外的合法治理形式的研究中，该项目旨在寻找全球南方区域组织合法性的背景充分来源，并考察它们的影响，从而有助于解释这些组织(非盟、东盟、阿拉伯联盟)被接受的原因。这是基于这样一种假设，即具有全球影响力的国际组织也利用背景充分的合法性来源，将有助于稳定全球秩序。为此目的，这些项目调查不同合法性来源的影响。因此，我一方面指的是我自己对全球合法治理的研究(例如，以2009年、2013a为例)，另一方面指的是相关的政治学、文化研究、批评研究和社会学区域文献。该项目的主要关注点是通过对不同合法性来源的系统分析，将全球南方合法区域治理的理论和经验主义联系在一起。通过对来自不同社会文化背景的三个区域案例研究的分析，该研究项目的目的首先是确定经合组织世界以外的多种合法性来源，其次是调查它们对这些组织在不同规则接受者方面的影响，第三是获得关于这些区域组织的改革选择以及整个全球秩序的线索。

Embedded in the research on legitimate forms of governance beyond the nation state, the project intends to search for context-adequate sources of legitimacy of regional organisations in the global South and looks at their effects and thereby contribute to the explanation of the acceptance of these organizations (AU, ASEAN, Arab League). This is informed by the assumption that the utilisation of context-adequate sources of legitimacy also by international organisations with global reach will contribute to a stabilisation of the global order. For this purpose, the projects investigates the effects of different sources of legitimacy. Thereby, I refer on the one hand to my own research on legitimate governance on the global level (e.g. Take 2009, 2013a) and on the other hand to the relevant political science, cultural studies, critical studies and sociological regional literature. The main concern of the project is to tie together theory and empiricism of legitimate regional governance in the Global South by a hypothesis-oriented, systematic analysis of different source of legitimacy. Employing the analysis of three regional case studies from different social-cultural contexts, the research project aims first at the identification of manifold sources of legitimacy beyond the OECD-world, second at the investigation of their effects with regard to the acceptance of these organizations on the side of different rule addressees, and third at gaining clues on reform options of these regional organizations as well as global order in general.