Accord And Conflict: The Research On Economic And Politics Relations Between ASEAN And Europe Union

In the past few decades, a large number of regional organizations have emerged as international politics actors, and contributed to the development and formation of a multi-polar international system. With the deepening of the economic globalization, the international political actors have been becoming more and more interdependent, they have to seek means through international institutions to solve the problems they face and meet their own needs for development. As a result, the ability of these regional organizations to deal with external relations is greatly strengthened, and their influence is growing. In the early 1970s, the initial development of ASEAN-EU relations embodied this general trend. Three decades' evolution of these interregional economic and political relationships has offered ample empirical experiences for us to explore the implications in depth.This dissertation looks at ASEAN-EU economic and political relations by exploring the evolution of ASEAN-EU relations and the ASEAN-EU cooperation in economy, politics and security. This dissertation addresses ASEAN-EU economic and political relations by discussing the following specific issues in the five sections. The first section discusses the rise of ASEAN and EU, and their roles in world politics. The second section dwells on the present ASEAN-EU relations. The third section deals with the ASEAN-EU economic and trade cooperation and other relative problems by focusing on the process of ASEAN-EU FTA. The fourth section debates the ASEAN and EU political and security cooperation. The last section lists the obstacles in the ASEAN-EU cooperation, and tries to find out the essence of ASEAN-EU conflicting relations, and predicts the future for ASEAN-EU relations.This dissertation contributes to the knowledge of ASEAN-EU relations by highlighting the conclusions as follows. 1. ASEAN-EU Relations are basically asymmetric. 2. Both bilateralism and multilateralism work as mechanism in ASEAN-EU relations. 3. Economic factor is the dynamic power of ASEAN-EU relations. 4. ASEAN-EU cooperation contributes to the stability of the Asia-Pacific region. 5. although ASEAN-EU relations are significant, there are many vast divergences in history,culture,experience and the level of development, and the political will of ASEAN and EU is not yet strong enough to offset the differences and gaps of their concepts. But in the long run, the ASEAN-EU relations will continue to develop, because either is increasingly important in each other's strategies of foreign policies. 6. ASEAN-EU relations have both negative and positive impacts on China; China should take advantage of the positive factors and handle its relations with both EU and ASEAN actively and delicately.