ABSTRACT
The third chapter focuses on the first part of the process that led to the institutionalisation of the ASEAN regional disaster management: the adoption in 2004 of the ASEAN Regional Programme on Disaster Management (ARPDM).
The empirical chapter unpacked this outcome by analysing the actor’s interaction that triggered this development. After briefly discussing the similarities and differences of the ARPDM Programme with the EU Civil Protection Action Programme, the chapter identified the four actors’ typology which by performing a certain action(s) produces the institutional advancement: the adoption of the ARPDM. By analysing the interaction that triggered the implementation of an ASEAN programme on disaster management, the chapter argues that the EU cannot be considered the most influential actor in the adoption of a disaster management policy for ASEAN member states, as international norms, internal dynamics and local processes played a much more relevant role.
