ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows human rights socialisation attempts based on state membership of regional organisations is a widespread phenomenon. Even in what appears at first to be hostile terrain, such as Southeast Asia in the mid-1990s, Thailand and the Philippines engaged with Myanmar under the aegis of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) membership negotiations in an effort to promote compliance with at least a minimum of human rights standards. The conceptual framework developed to appreciate the socialisation efforts revealed has been wider than that previously used to study regional organisations, human rights, and membership. Revealing the relationships between Myanmar and ASEAN, and Panama and the Organization of American States (OAS), and then placing that alongside the Turkey-European Union (EU) case has not only widened our appreciation of the varied nature of rights socialisation in regional contexts.
