School of Social and Political Sciences - Research Publications
Permanent URI for this collection
Search Results
1 - 4 of 4
-
ItemEU-Australia Relations(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)This chapter examines the development of the EU–Australia relationship from a focus on one country (the UK) and policy (agriculture) to a broadening of engagement. Engagement has long been characterised by conflict and mutual misunderstandings, underpinned by a sense of distance. For some decades, neither interlocutor featured significantly on the other’s radar screen. Increasingly, however, there has been a rapprochement based on common concerns and a shared interest in cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. The chapter examines how and why the relationship has moved from a bilateral state-to-state engagement in the early debates to an increasingly regionalised and multilateralised common agenda. It commences with an overview of the single-country emphasis of Australia in its dealings with the EU and the single-policy focus on the Common Agricultural Policy. It then examines the development of agreements and dialogues as the EU broadened its policy scope and reach and as Australia increasingly perceived advantages in engaging in a multidimensional relationship with the EU, its institutions and member states.
-
ItemEurope-Asia Studies: The Contribution of Comparative Regional Integration(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)This chapter examines the contribution of comparative regional integration studies, with particular reference to EU–Asia relations. The chapter has three core purposes. First – and briefly – it asks why scholars should study regions, regionalism and regional integration comparatively and also sets out how we understand the key terms here, that is regions and regional integration. Second, it asks how, once the matters of why and what to compare have been addressed successfully, scholars can actually go about comparative study of regions in the global polity. Finally, it sets out how comparative regional integration studies can contribute and provide fruitful research pathways capable of contributing much to Europe–Asia studies.
-
ItemNo Preview AvailableTowards a strengthened EU strategy towards Australia: sharing values; respecting difference, consolidating policy depth(London School of Economics and Political Science, LondonLondon School of Economics and Political Science, 2016)
-
ItemModel Europe? Reflections on the EU as a model of regional integration(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)