Contemporary Inter-regional Dialogue and Cooperation between the EU and ASEAN on Non-traditional Security Challenges

<p>This book provides an analysis of non-traditional security (NTS) crises and cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Southeast Asia.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>