Sources of Legitimacy of Regional Organizations in the Global South

在对超越民族国家的合法治理形式的研究中，该项目旨在寻找全球南方地区组织合法性的背景充分来源，并研究其影响，从而有助于解释这些组织（非盟、东盟、阿拉伯联盟）的接受程度。这是基于这样一种假设，即具有全球影响力的国际组织也会利用符合背景的合法性来源，这将有助于稳定全球秩序。为此，该项目调查了不同合法性来源的影响。因此，我一方面参考了我自己在全球层面上对合法治理的研究（例如2009年，2013年），另一方面参考了相关的政治学、文化研究、批判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假设导向的系统分析，将全球南方合法区域治理的理论和经验主义结合起来。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，该研究项目首先旨在识别经合组织世界之外的合法性的多种来源，其次是调查它们对不同规则接受者方面对这些组织的接受程度的影响，第三是获得这些区域组织以及总体全球秩序的改革选择的线索。

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.