ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to arrive at an alternative policy analysis providing a satisfactory framework to explain the case, it will shy away from over-focusing on an explanation of the causes of policies. It concentrates on developing an alternative policy analysis and focuses on the particular development of the framework. The chapter addresses a satisfactory theoretical analysis to answer why Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been slow in establishing a legally binding instrument for the protection of migrant worker. It focuses on a problem within the development of a policy that is both foreign and social in nature. The chapter points out that the indicative components of the sociological institutionalism approach are useful to arrive at a satisfactory analytical frame for two-level games research. The two-level games approach compliments previous views within international relations theory on what drives foreign policy-making processes. Two-level games analyses come from approaches that rely on rational methods to reach their inferences.
