Southeast Asia and the European Union

Non-traditional security crises and cooperation

Naila Maier-Knapp

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317680772
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Asian American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Amidst the Eurozone crisis, the European Union (EU) is stepping up its dialogue and engagement with and within Southeast Asia. The EU's contemporary approach towards Asia emphasises the importance of open economies and common challenges of the 21st Century. So-called non-traditional security issues have been portrayed increasingly as an avenue to share experiences and enhance cooperation between the EU and Southeast Asia.

This contemporary conceptual re-orientation demands a closer look at the EU as an actor in Southeast Asia. This book is the first contemporary monograph-length discussion of the EU as a politico-security actor in in the region post-Cold War. Drawing upon the historical and institutional context and a broad range of empirical case studies, it considers the non-traditional security crises of the late 1990s and early 2000s in Southeast Asia as triggers for enhanced regional and inter-regional cooperation. In doing so, the book construes new insights into our understanding of the EU as a global actor and its normative influence in regions far away from Europe.

Providing a crisis-centric and sector-specific analysis which is much-needed, the book will be of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian Politics and European Politics, as well as policy-makers.

Index

• Aceh xv, xvi, 1–2, 10, 78, 86–100, 110, 116
• Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) 2, 23, 84, 86–98, 100–18
• actor 3–6, 9–11, 14–15, 22–3, 41, 47–8, 55, 59–64, 66, 70, 73, 79–83, 88, 92–9, 102–3, 105–10, 113–17, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125; -centric 3, 15; international 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 41, 45, 55, 62–3, 98, 106, 109–10, 115, 120, 123–4; non-state 20, 30, 55, 59, 60–2, 64, 81, 85, 98, 107, 108, 120; NTS 9, 82, 97, 109, 120, 121, 122; political 2, 40, 115; politico-security 2, 7, 8, 11, 107–9, 121; by proxy 109; state-affiliated 60, 64, 109
• adaptive capacity 3
• Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) 5–6, 8, 10, 32–9, 41, 45–7, 49–52, 54, 58, 62, 64, 87, 101, 110
• ASEAN Plus Three (APT) 32, 33, 101
• ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) 22, 24, 45–7, 67, 75–6, 80–1, 108
• ASEAN Secretariat 22, 24, 37, 49, 61, 76, 101, 105, 109, 112, 113, 116
• ASEAN Way 19, 55
• ASEAN-EU: dialogue 3...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table Of Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Introduction to the analytical and historical context
• The EU and the Asian financial crisis
• The EU and the haze
• EU assistance in light of the Bali Bombings and avian influenza
• The Aceh Monitoring Mission
• Non-traditional security crises since the Aceh Monitoring Mission
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index