The European Union and Myanmar
This book analyses European foreign policy as the activity of the European Union (EU) as a global actor and explores its efforts to raise its visibility in Southeast Asia through its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Myanmar.
Contributors examine the EUs engagement in a process of dynamic consolidation of its relationship with Asia and the Pacific region. They shed light on how interregional relations with ASEAN and interactions with Myanmar can be viewed as a perfect opportunity to promote the EUs presence in the region. Chapters examine the EUs efforts to inspire Myanmar to connect with security cooperation and Myanmars engagement with the EU to diversify its foreign relations with China. The book also explores the extent to which the EU has failed regarding the Rohingya crisis and whether the EUs effort to support the peace process in Myanmar has been beneficial.
A timely and important contribution to the growing literature on the EUs role in the world and its relations with East and Southeast Asia, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of International Relations, European Politics and Foreign Policy, Comparative Regionalism, and East Asian and Southeast Asian Studies.
Ludovica Marchi (pen name of Ludovica Marchi Balossi-Restelli) is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
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Interactions via ASEAN
Edited by Ludovica Marchi Balossi Restelli
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Names: Marchi Balossi-Restelli, Ludovica, editor.
Title: The European Union and Myanmar : interactions via ASEAN /
edited by Ludovica Marchi.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
Series: Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series
Identifiers: LCCN 2019014930 | ISBN 9781138599178 (hardback) |
ISBN 9780429485886 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429941306 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: BurmaForeign relationsEuropean Union countries. |
European Union countriesForeign relationsBurma. | Burma
Politics and government21st century. | European Union countries
Foreign relationsSoutheast Asia. | Southeast AsiaForeign
relationsEuropean Union countries. | Interregionalism. | ASEAN. |
European Union.
Classification: LCC JZ1727.A54 E87 2019 | DDC 341.242/209591dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019014930
ISBN: 978-1-138-59917-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-48588-6 (ebk)
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To my uncle Renzo Confalonieri, Silver Medal for Military Valour, and all those who fell at the age of 20 during World War I