CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Allahverdiyev, Vugar Rauf |
|---|---|
| Title | Interregionalism as a Foreign Policy Tool of the EU: The Cases of ASEM and EU-ASEAN Partnership |
| Summary | With the maturity of the EU as a regional and international actor, its role in the foreign policy relations has acquired an individual form. Over the last two decades, the EU has been using interregionalism as one of its foreign policy tools to conduct its external policies in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This paper concentrates on the EU’s interregional ties with Asia,examining the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process and the EU-ASEAN partnership. The primary question to be answered is whether interregionalism is a viable foreign policy tool to pursue the EU’s external relations in Asia. Departing from this point, the paper argues that the success of the interregional relations is very much dependent on the level of integration of the counterpart regions involved in the process. Moreover, the paper demonstrates that the growing regional cohesion of the ASEAN as a regional organization has huge impact on overall success of the interregional EU-ASEAN partnership, while relatively low productivity of the ASEM could be best explained by the lack of cohesion among the Asian counterparts of the EU involved in the process. |
| Supervisor | Balazs, Peter |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/allahverdiyev_vugar.pdf |
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