The EU is a trading superpower in Asia. It is China’s primary commercial partner and Japan’s third largest. As the Union becomes more and more integrated with Asian economies, contributing to a stable security environment in the region becomes increasingly important for the EU if it wants to maintain its current socio-economic position.
Asia is a region in flux. China’s sustained growth provides the neighbouring countries with great economic opportunities, but also with ominous strategic challenges as Beijing’s defence modernisation alters the security perceptions in the region. This has led the US and its Asian allies to reassess their threat perceptions and defence strategies to varying degrees. Growing Chinese assertiveness takes place outside of – and in opposition to – the US system of alliances which has so far guaranteed peace and stability in the region. The region’s policy makers are therefore increasingly looking for ways to accommodate these changing power relations in an environment beset by competing nationalisms.
The EUISS pays particular attention to the evolving security and strategic dynamics in Asia and how these may affect the EU. It covers the following topics in more detail: the global implications of the rise of China and India; the security environment and international relations in East Asia, including the evolving dynamics in North-East Asia, in the South China Sea, and in Sino-American relations; China’s foreign policy, in particular in areas of strategic interest for the EU: Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
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Recent security developments in East Asia have raised questions about peace and stability in a part of the world accounting for over a quarter of EU global trade. This Policy Brief assesses the changing power relations in East Asia and highlights potential implications of the region's security flashpoints for the EU.
The annual India-EU Forum on Effective Multilateralism took place in New Delhi on 27 and 28 September 2011. The event was organised by the EUISS, the Indian Council for World Affairs (ICWA) of the Indian Ministry of External Relations and the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM).
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In an article about EU-India relations, EUISS Director Álvaro de Vasconcelos has been quoted referring to the changing world order and the rise of India.
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