New Interregionalism? The EU and East Asia

Gilson, Julie

doi:10.1080/07036330500190164

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“…The EU has also been supportive of capacity building in ASEAN, which helps the latter to respond to security issues. The EU and ASEAN have been engaged in dialogue since 1972, with cooperation further institutionalised in 1980 with the signing of the ASEAN-EEC Cooperation Agreement (Gilson, 2005). In the period since this agreement, cooperation has expanded to include political and security matters.…”

Section: Eu-asean Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU and ASEAN: Issues of regional security

Rees

2010

Int Polit

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The article critically explores how, and in what ways, the EU and ASEAN have addressed contemporary security issues, including non-traditional security threats. The comparison of the EU and ASEAN responses to these threats highlights the different forms and functions that regional integration has taken in Europe and Southeast Asia, and the implications of these differences for intra- and extra-regional security cooperation. The article considers how the EU and ASEAN might work more cooperatively together, noting some existing examples in which experiences and good practice are already shared, as well as other areas in which cooperation might be possible. The article concludes that while security cooperation in the EU and ASEAN, as well as between the two regional entities, is problematic, reflecting differing regional and national interests and organisational capabilities, there are concrete areas in which cooperation is possible

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Section: Eu-asean Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU and ASEAN: Issues of regional security

Rees

2010

Int Polit

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“…So far, analyses of the only other inter-regional relationship that has generated any degree of study -namely that between the EU and Mercosur -does not provide such evidence [25,39]. Interregionalism, as has been suggested, can better be conceptualized, not as new form of international relations behaviour as is sometimes suggested [38,42,82,84,91] but, rather, as a normative goal or process to be promoted in the case of the European Union, and linked to its self projection in a global context [44]. Interregionalism is not so much a means employed by the EU as a global actor but, rather, an end in itself, or to use the classic distinction of Arnold Wolfer's [101] previously alluded to, a milieu goal that is one designed to shape conditions of functioning beyond national boundaries.…”

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Interregionalism or Merely a Fourth-Level Game? An Examination of the EU-ASEAN Relationship

Camroux

2009

East Asia

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It is argued in this paper that the normative nature of both the conscious and unconscious attempts of the European Union as a 'civilian power' to export its model of regional integration elsewhere, has led to the claim that an ostensibly new form of interaction in international relations -one characterized as interregionalism -has emerged. An examination of the EU-ASEAN relationship, however, would suggest that this assertion is greatly exaggerated. Between conventional bilateral relations, between individual EU members and individual Southeast Asian nations, and forms of multilateral and asymmetrical bilateral relations between the EU as a global actor and individual ASEAN members, the space for interregionalism is indeed very limited. Rather, by building on Putnam's seminal work enunciating his metaphor of "two-level games" (i.e. the domestic and the international) and its extension in Patterson's and Deutsch's discussion of 'three level games' (the third level being the intra-regional), it is suggested that interregionalism is merely the addition of a minor fourth level in international relations bargaining. Such a characterization has the salutary effect of drawing attention back, both to the different forms of regional integration, and to the varying capacities within regional entities. It is these elements that are worthy of further research, rather than some imagined alchemy denoted as interregionalism. The latter can best be described as a normative milieu goal, rather than being an appropriate and useful analytical category.

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“…Gilson (2005) highlights the comprehensive cooperation between these regions via ASEM as the emergence of new inter-regionalism. But in order to realize the latent potentials in trade and investment flows between the EU and East Asia, ASEM may need more than the four principles of informality, multidimensionality, equal partnership and a high-level focus.…”

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Recent developments on RTAs in North East Asia

Hwang

Yin

2008

Asia Europe J

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This paper explores the recent developments for regional trade agreements (RTAs) in North East Asia since China's accession to the WTO in 2001. After having successfully achieved high growth rates since it became a WTO member, China's stance towards RTAs has become more positive. In particular, an RTA in North East Asia will be facilitated if China, Japan and Korea fully acknowledge the positive spillover effect from launching such an RTA. This paper further argues that all three nations have to endeavor to resolve the prolonged confrontation in their collective defense systems if they want to expedite any real progress towards a federal RTA in North East Asia.

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New Interregionalism? The EU and East Asia

Cited by 73 publications

References 13 publications

EU and ASEAN: Issues of regional security

EU and ASEAN: Issues of regional security

Interregionalism or Merely a Fourth-Level Game? An Examination of the EU-ASEAN Relationship

Recent developments on RTAs in North East Asia

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