The Securitisation of EU-Asia Relations in the Post-Cold War Era
The Securitisation of EU-Asia Relations in the Post-Cold War Era
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后冷战时代欧亚关系的安全化
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10.1057/9780230378704_12
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2013
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通讯作者：
Nicola Casarini
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作者：
Nicola Casarini
近20年来，欧亚安全关系（包括传统和非传统安全关系）在数量和质量上都有了提高。欧洲和亚洲能够在美国的军事保护伞下推进它们的安全关系。本章探讨了欧盟-亚洲合作的三个主要领域：(1)经济和金融安全；（二）非传统安全；（三）国防和军事问题。尽管欧盟在亚洲仍被视为一个主要的民间力量，但欧洲军售数据以及欧盟与中国在卫星导航和空间技术方面的合作，让人对这种观点进行了限制。看来欧盟成员国在亚洲的经济利益在很大程度上取决于武器出口，这使得欧洲已经（尽管无意识地）成为亚洲战略平衡中的一个额外因素。此外，促进欧盟成员国的太空和防务利益有助于欧盟层面的场外关系，并向亚洲决策者发出复杂的信号。为了克服这一明显的矛盾，结论中认为，欧盟需要更加协调一致，并推动计划，使自己成为该地区的软安全参与者。首先，可以通过与东南亚国家联盟（ASEAN）建立更密切的政治关系——包括就防务问题加强对话——来实现这一目标，最终目的是促进多边安全架构，并制衡美国和中国更为单边主义（有时甚至是霸权主义）的态度。
In the last two decades EU-Asia security relations (both in traditional and non-traditional issues) have grown in quantity and quality. Europe and Asia have been able to push forward their security relations under the protective military umbrella of the US. This chapter examines three main areas of EU-Asia cooperation: (i) economic and financial security; (ii) non-traditional security; and (iii) defence and military issues. While the EU continues to be perceived as mainly a civilian power in Asia, data on European arms sales and EU-China cooperation on satellite navigation and space technology invite qualification of this view. It appears that EU member states’ economic interests in Asia consist in large part of arms exports, making Europe already (though unconsciously) an additional factor in Asia’s strategic balance. Moreover, the promotion of EU member states’ space and defence interests contributes to sideline relations at the EU level and sends mixed signals to Asia’s policy-makers. To overcome this apparent contradiction, it is argued in the Conclusion that the EU needs to be more coherent and push forward plans for establishing itself as a soft security actor in the region. This could be done, initially, by fostering closer political relations — including an upgraded dialogue on defence issues — with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) grouping, ultimately aiming to promote a multilateral security architecture and counterbalance the more unilateral — and sometimes hegemonic — attitudes of the US and China.