Historical Resentment Emotional And Specification Identity: A Comparative Study Of The Au And Asean Human Rights Norms

This dissertation aims to prove the casual relations between historical hatred and norms identification. It is composed of two parts: theoretical induction and cases'verication. In the first part, two approaches are adopted: the former one is the process of cognition through which the historical hatred influences the norms identification and the latter one is the process of collective identity construction. In the second part, it focuses on the comparative cases between AU and ASEAN. Both as collective groups of developing nations, they have great difference in human rights norms. AU follows the non-indifference principle, whereas ASEAN adheres to the non-inteference principle, which is closely related to their respective historical hatred. In terms of the whole African continent, it has developed the hatred feeling against the matters of human rights violations (racism and racial discrimination) because of several hundred years of slave trade and colonial activities. In terms of the Southeast Asian nations, it has developed the hatred sentiment against the matters of sovereignty violations as a result of almost two thousand years of Huayi Order and several hundred years of western colonization. Different hatred feelings influence their respective processes of norm cognition and collective identity, which leads to different norms in human rights. Based on this dissertation, the causal relations between historical hatred and norms identification can be reasoned.