Contemporary Inter-regional Dialogue and Cooperation between the EU and ASEAN on Non-traditional Security Challenges (eBook / ePub)

This book provides an analysis of non-traditional security (NTS) crises and

cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Southeast Asia.

Using case studies - transboundary air pollution, marine life endangerment,

illegal migration, and terrorism - from both Southeast Asia and

Western Europe between 2009 and 2016, this book offers a contemporary

understanding of the EU as a collective actor within the Association of

Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-EU and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)

inter-regional dialogue formats and affiliated programmes. Through new

empirical insights into the regional and inter-regional institutional dynamics

of the EU and ASEAN in times of crisis and rising nationalism in both

regions the author demonstrates, in particular, the relevance of the EU as a

security and normative actor and the value of inter-regionalism as a foreign

and security tool of the EU in Southeast Asia. Thus, this book underlines

the importance of regional organisations in the management of contemporary

transboundary NTS challenges within global governance.

Enhancing topical debates and offering a timely assessment of crisis-induced

regionalism and inter-regionalism in world affairs, this book will

be of interest to scholars studying International Relations, International Security,

Southeast Asian Studies, European Studies, and Public Policy.