The EU, ASEAN and Interregionalism Regionalism Support and Norm Diffusion between the EU and ASEAN

Challenging the conventional processes of conceptualising the European Union as an actor, this study provides a timely and in-depth analysis of EU-ASEAN relations which contests the use of power as the basis of such conceptualisations. It assesses the EU's actorness by analysing its attempts to promote its regionalism experience to ASEAN. Three aspects of regionalism – economic integration, institutionalisation and political norms – are analysed using data collected from officials and researchers connected to these regions. In doing so, this compelling volume shows that the effectiveness of the EU's aim to diffuse these norms is predominantly determined both by ASEAN's perception of the EU as an actor and its consideration of the EU's regionalism experience as relevant to ASEAN.

Laura Allison is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also an Associate Fellow of the EU Centre in Singapore. She received her PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her current research focuses on comparative regional integration and comparative federalism.

1. Ambitions of Actorness
2. Seeking to Reconceptualise the EU as a 'Power'
3. Drivers of Interregionalism: EU-ASEAN Engagement
4. The EU, ASEAN and Economic Integration
5. The EU, ASEAN and Institutionalisation
6. The EU, ASEAN and Political Norms
7. The Implications of Regionalism Support and Norm Diffusion on EU Actorness