ABSTRACT
The chapter summarises insights from the empirical chapters on counter-terrorism, disaster management, and maritime security cooperation between the EU and ASEAN. Based on the findings regarding the EU's potential actorness and actorness in action in these fields of non-traditional security, it draws some conclusions on the causal mechanism linking external perceptions of the EU with actual interregional policies. The chapter concludes that the domestic context of the perceiver, ASEAN, is a crucial precondition for its views of the EU to unfold causal impact. Next to this, other scope conditions such as the mode of collaboration and the sensitivity of the respective policy field are reviewed. The chapter also puts these findings in a larger context by pointing to avenues for further research and by presenting an analytical framework deemed suitable for such endeavours. Finally, the chapter makes some recommendations to policy makers. Here, more sensitivity to the partner's domestic context as well as a greater degree of empathy are called for.
