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Title: | The EU’s group-to-group dialogue with the Southern Mediterranean and ASEAN – how much have they achieved? A comparative analysis | Authors: | Hong, Wai Mun | Keywords: | DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::International relations | Issue Date: | 2013 | Source: | Hong, W. M. (2013). The EU’s Group-to-Group Dialogue with the Southern Mediterranean and ASEAN – how much have they achieved? A Comparative Analysis (EUC Working Paper, No. 18). Singapore: EU Centre. | Series/Report no.: | EUC working paper, No. 18-13 | Abstract: | Four decades of the EU’s group-to-group dialogues with the Southern Mediterranean grouping of countries and with ASEAN have produced different dynamics and outcomes, despite the EU’s common strategy to use economic soft power to achieve their goals for the partnerships. Diverging conditions in the two regions created inconsistency in the EU’s application of the common approach. The EU’s neighbourhood security concerns forced it to relax its political stand with their Southern Mediterranean partners. For ASEAN, geographical distance dilutes the EU’s security concerns it that region and has afforded the EU to be more ideological and assertive on democracy and human rights practices. These issues have provoked disagreements in EU-ASEAN dialogues, but both sides have also tried to remain pragmatic in order to achieve some progress in the partnership. In contrast, the protracted the Arab-Israeli conflict continues to hamper the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue, resulting in little progress. Social upheavals in the Southern Mediterranean also brought their partnership to a standstill. The EU’s cooperation with former authoritarian regimes like Libya and Syria have only caused damage to its credibility in the Southern Mediterranean, and future Euro-Mediterranean dialogues are likely to be affected by it. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79657 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19391 |
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