ABSTRACT
The previous three chapters have examined the historical evolution of a variety of ideas of regionalism and focused on the ideas of Pan-Asianism and Asia-Pacifi c regionalism, and their contestation of regional imagination. This chapter will continue to examine such contestation by studying the different competing norms and principles which guide region-building and regulate regional life. In particular it will examine the contestation of norms between the EU and Asia. Clearly the EU poses an ideational challenge to Asian regionalism in terms of its normative principles.
