The European Union and Myanmar (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Relations with Southeast Asia are of critical importance for the future of the EU. This book focuses on the case study of Myanmar. It examines the ways in which the EU interacts with Myanmar, against the background of both the balancing power context and competition politics in the Pacific Southeast Asian region. Contributors explore Myanmar's dynamics of change and inertia to change as intertwined processes in the country, and the EU's role therein. The chapters investigate the windows of opportunity arising in Myanmar, and the ways in which the EU can contribute.

This book first introduces Myanmar, setting the country within its relations with ASEAN and the EU, and subsequently debates the importance of diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region, the processes that both the EU and the EU via ASEAN have activated, their limits and success in seeking to induce Myanmar to reconsider its past position. It enquires how the EU has been related to Myanmar since its sanction policy-making up to the 2015 elections and beyond, and traces the EU's efforts at the ARF in seeking to persuade Myanmar to become involved in security cooperation. It examines the EU's development policy towards Myanmar and compares it to China's parallel policy. With regard to the Rohingyas people, the book explores the opportunity for the EU's innovative action in dealing with ASEAN regarding the problems afflicting those people. Concerning the EU's support of the peace process in Myanmar, the book assesses the EU's action.

A timely and important contribution to the growing literature on EU-ASEAN relations, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of International Relations, European politics and foreign policy, Comparative Regionalism, East Asian and Southeast Asian Studies.