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The Role of External Powers in EU–Asia Security Relations

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Summary:

This chapter maps out the changing roles played by the United States, Russia and India as security actors in East Asia, and their influence on EU foreign and security policies in the region. Detailing the waxing and waning of the US’ ‘unipolar moment’, Russia’s military resurgence, and the increasingly assertive balancing acts of India, the chapter reviews the main policy developments implemented by these three actors since 1990 and how their policies converge or diverge with the EU’s approaches across a range of traditional and non-traditional security issues. The chapter concludes that the challenge for the EU is to advance its interests, and augment the effects, of its policies and instruments in Asia considering the potential for collaboration and contestation with the United States, Russia and India, three very different actors that diverge considerably in both strategic intentions and capabilities.
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69966-6
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Page count: 20
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 415 - 435
  • Title of book/report: The Role of External Powers in EU–Asia Security Relations
  • URL 1: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-69966-6_19
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Themes

  • Defence and security
  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • Regions
  • Asia
  • Global governance
  • The EU