ABSTRACT
This chapter summarises the main empirical and theoretical findings of the preceding chapters. It puts forward that there are crisis-induced developments at the national and regional level that could see increased best-practice-sharing as well as capacity-building across the two regions. It furthermore construes a general perspective of the EU as an international actor in regions far from Europe. In this context, it, however, cautions that the recognition of the EU as a political and security actor also hinges on the recipient of action, no matter how far perspectives of security and insecurity are stretched. Thus, past and present NTS crises and the cross-regional cooperative efforts in response to these crises can only open some space for EU collective influence. Nonetheless, the book ends on a positive note and raises hope about post-crisis regionalism and inter-regionalism in the world.
