Social Emergence in International Relations: Institutional Dynamics in East Asia

Part I.- 1. The issue of institutional emergence in East Asia: an introduction.- 1.1 Regionalism in East Asia: Changing institutional patterns in a complex region.- 1.2 Institutionalisms and their shortcomings: Challenging epiphenomenal views.- 1.3 Introducing the concept of emergence to the study of world politics: Implications for studying regional institutions.- 1.4 A guide to the structure of the book.- 2. A critical realist approach to the study of world politics.- 2.1 A realist philosophy of science.- 2.2 Key concepts and conceptual abstraction.- 2.3 Social science and concrete research: Methodological implications.- 2.4 Concluding remarks: Critical realism in IR.- 3. Emergence and complexity in the international system: developing a social ontology of international relations.- 3.1 Complexity and emergentist thinking in IR.- 3.2 Emergence in international systems: Introducing the concept of emergence.- 3.3 Regional institutions as emergent entities of the international system: Relational organization and emergent properties.- 3.4 Studying regional institutions as emergent: A preliminary conclusion.- 4. Emergence and the complexity of social practices: the role of discourse in social emergence.- 4.1 Discourse as a social practice in complex international systems: A realist conception.- 4.2 Social emergence and discourse: Conceptualizing discourse as a mechanism.- 4.3 Integrating discourse into the study of emergent regional institutions.- 4.4 How to study regional institutions as emergent: A conclusion.- Part II.- 5. The case of institutional emergence in East Asia: analyzing regional institutions as emergent entities - a critical realist informed critical discourse analysis.- 5.1 Institutional emergence in East Asia: The case of ASEAN Plus Three and the East Asia Summit.- 5.2 Analyzing institutional emergence: A critical realist-informed critical discourse analysis.- 6. Examining the role of discourse in institutional emergence in East Asia using the example of ASEAN Plus Three and the East Asia Summit.- 6.1 The discourse of community building: Purposive emergent properties and regional imaginaries.- 6.2 The discourse of openness: Organizational emergent properties.- 6.3 The discourse of complementarity: Institutional power relations and ASEAN centrality.- 6.4 Evaluation: Studying regional institutions in East Asia as emergent.- 7. The relevance of emergence in world politics: conclusion and outlook.- 7.1 Considering emergence in the international system.- 7.2 Studying world politics as emergent: Contributions and implications.- 7.3 Possible disagreements and future perspectives