ASEAN-EU relations: from regional integration assistance to security significance?
Titel: | ASEAN-EU relations: from regional integration assistance to security significance? |
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Veröffentlicht: | Hamburg, 2013 |
Umfang: | Online-Ressource, 8 S. |
Format: | E-Book |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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GIGA Focus International Edition ; Bd. 3 |
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Abstract: The Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held their annual summit from 17 to 18 November 2012 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. European Union (EU) decision-makers have paid relatively little attention to the ASEAN region despite entering into a series of important agreements with ASEAN as a whole and with individual ASEAN member states: In July 2012 the EU entered into the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), an important regulatory framework for the region. In October 2012, it finished negotiating a partnership and cooperation agreement (PCA) with Vietnam, and in December of the same year, it signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with Singapore. But despite these milestones, the EU generally has played a minor role in the region. To participate in Southeast Asia’s economic dynamism, the EU must make clear its importance to the region – above and beyond trade. The ASEAN Charter of 2007 brought ASEAN’s institutional structures more in lin |