Weiqing Song & Jianwei Wang 
The European Union in the Asia-Pacific [EPUB ebook] 
Rethinking Europe’s strategies and policies

Since the mid-1990s, the European Union has defined the Asia Pacific as one of its key strategic targets on its ambitious road towards a global power. Over the past decades, big changes have taken place on both sides and the wider world. It’s high time to evaluate the EU’s performance in its Asian policy. In fact, the EU is at crossroads with its Asia Pacific policy. On several aspects, the EU is compelled to redefine its interests and roles, and rethink its strategies and policies towards the dynamic and ever important Asia Pacific region. This volume addresses this theme, by elaborating the general context, major issues and countries in the EU’s Asia Pacific policy. It covers issue areas of traditional security, economy and trade, public diplomacy, and human security and focuses on the EU’s relations with China, Japan, the ASEAN countries, and Australasia.

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Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction: The European Union’s Asia-Pacific strategies and policies at the crossroads
Weiqing Song and Jianwei Wang
Part I: General strategic context
1 The European Union in the Asia-Pacific: strategic reflections
Michael Reiterer
2 A European pivot towards Asia? Inter-regionalism in a new era
Julie Gilson
Part II: Major issues and themes
3 European Union security policy and initiatives in the Asia-Pacific
Fulvio Attinà
4 Assessing the European Union’s economic relations with the Asia-Pacific
Miguel Otero-Iglesias
5 Public diplomacy of the European Union in East Asia
Suetyi Lai and Li Zhang
6 The European Union’s approach to human security: lessons from the Asia-Pacific
Evangelos Fanoulis
Part III: Selected countries and groups
7 The European Union’s partnership with China: navigating between trouble and promise
Gustaaf Geeraerts
8 Shifting constraints, evolving opportunities and the search for the “strategic” in the European Union–Japan bilateral partnership
Elena Atanassova-Cornelis
9 The European Union’s security strategy in the ASEAN region
Reuben Wong
10 The European Union in Australia and New Zealand
Nicole Scicluna
Index

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Weiqing Song is Associate Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics at the University of Macau, Macao SAR, China

Jianwei Wang is Professor of Political Science and Director of Institute of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Macau, Macau SAR, China