A Global Security Triangle: European, African and Asian Interaction (Routledge GARNET series: Europe in the World)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 11
Contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction: Global actors competing or co-operating?......Page 22
Part I General framework......Page 34
1 The EU’s promotion of regional integration: Norms, actorness and geopolitical realities......Page 36
2 EU threat perceptions and governance......Page 57
3 The European international identity considered from outside: European, African and Asian interaction......Page 77
Part II Africa......Page 96
4 African regional integration and the role of the European Union......Page 98
5 European military intervention in Congo......Page 114
6 The migration policy of the European Union, with special focus on Africa......Page 127
7 EU–African economic relations: Continuing dominance, traded for aid?......Page 143
8 The European Union and its Africa strategy: Case study Ethiopia......Page 158
Part III Asia......Page 174
9 Regional integration: Comparing European and Asian transformations......Page 176
10 European energy security: Central Asia and the Caspian region......Page 192
11 The role of the European Union in fighting nuclear proliferation in the greater Middle East: The case of Iran......Page 207
12 India and the European Union......Page 222
13 Civility meets realism: The prospects of a strategic partnership between the European Union and China......Page 236
14 The European Union as an important (low-profile) actor in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict......Page 250
Conclusion: From a global security triangle to a normative international society?......Page 263
Index......Page 267