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Interregionalism as a Foreign Policy Tool of the EU:. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Jan 2009, Pages: 52
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.
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