ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a relatively new issue in relations between the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): security cooperation. Given the EU’s increasingly proactive security approach towards ASEAN over the past decade, security cooperation merits greater scholarly attention. This chapter investigates the types of EU security policy towards ASEAN, examines the substance of the EU’s diffusion items in security-related policy areas, and analyses the overall effectiveness of EU norm and policy diffusion. The chapter further evaluates the norm diffusion process, especially the direct and indirect diffusion mechanisms contributing to this process. Finally, it analyses the nature of the EU’s power projection in the context of EU–ASEAN security relations by examining ASEAN’s local contexts and a number of intervening factors.
