| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歐洲研究所碩士班 === 97 === From strengthening political and economic influence, the European Union (EU) constantly deepens and broadens its integration since established. The EU experienced 5th enlargement, its comprehensive integration absolutely has become a globe actor. Meanwhile, since 1967 the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) also demonstrates different way of integration in Asia. Since 1978 the EU became the oldest political dialogue partner with the ASEAN, and European Commission adopted “Toward a New Asia Strategy” in 1994, “A new partnership for South East Asia” in 2003, that represent the EU has emphasized its relation with the region South East Asia. In addition, the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) held in 1996, the EU has enhanced its influence in Asia-Pacific region. EU also want to enhance mutual understanding and partner relationship toward ASEAN, and through dialogue among equals, together playing a constructive and stable role about international affairs.
In the context of globalization and regionalization, the security issue has not limited in the area of traditional military level, and importance of non-traditional security issues that need interregional cooperation also emerge after the 911 event. Many problems can not be tackled by single nation capability, for example: drugs trafficking, transnational organized crimes, and terrorism. As a result, security cooperation of the EU and ASEAN relations will have positive effect. This paper discuss the process of EU policies toward Asia and South East Asia within the EU external relations, and discuss how the EU set up this process to be the basis of security cooperation with ASEAN. Moreover the author would like to analyze the future development of security cooperation between the EU and ASEAN by the ongoing cooperative framework (for instance: ASEM, ARF).
This paper argues that security cooperation between the EU and ASEAN, and focus on the field of non-traditional security. Especially underscores the cooperation and situation between European Police Office (Europol) and ASEAN Chiefs of National Police (ASEANPOL), in the affairs of counter-terrorism. In the end, the author would like to analyze the implement of security cooperation between the EU and ASEAN due to the most far away European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) mission (Aceh Monitoring Mission, AMM). To sum up, this paper conclude that Taiwan could use the opportunities about these issues of international security and police cooperation to be a nice break for Taiwanese diplomatic dilemma.
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