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The EU and NZ Security Relationship
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• Research Question
• Security Mechanisms
• Methodology
• Chapter Proposals
Research Question Formulation…
• Why Study EU-NZ security dialogue in
the Asia-Pacific region?
1. Common Security Cultures?
• “[t]he European Union is looking forward to increasing its
cooperation with New Zealand in promoting stability and security
in the region and to fight against terrorism” – Bruno Julien
• “It is in our interests to see the EU fully engaged in the
international arena and not preoccupied with internal security
concerns. EU member states share the common preoccupation
with terrorism.” – MFAT
Research Question Formulation…
2. Common values
• “We are democratic and we promote human rights. And with
most New Zealanders tracing their origins back to Europe, we
share culture and heritage as well” – Helen Clark
Security Cooperation?...
Research Question…
“What efforts are being made to
maintain, deepen and improve regional
security dialogue between the EU and
NZ since 1999 and how will this dialogue
contribute to the maintenance of peace
and stability in the Asia-Pacific region?”
Dissecting the Research Question
• Why 1999?
– ESDP, HR, Joint Declaration btw NZ and EU
• Variables
– Independent Variable
• Volume of dialogue of NZ and EU
– Dependent Variable
• Regional Security Dialogue
– Moderator Variable
• Other dialogue and in Asia-Pacifc (i.e. Aust., China, US,
Japan..)
Dissecting the Research Question…
• What is security?
– Narrow vs. Wide Debate
– An interchangeable precedence
– Enviromental Security, Human Security,
Terrorism, Health...
• Where is the Asia-Pacific region…?
– How does the EU and NZ define regions?
Asia-Pacific…
Mongolia
China
North Korea
South Korea
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
Fiji
Samoa
Vanuatu
Papa New Guinea
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Kiribati
Tonga
Cook Islands
French Polynesia
Timor Leste
Vietnam
Thailand
Singapore
Philippines
Myanmar
Malaysia
Laos
Indonesia
Cambodia
Brunei Darussalam
Security Mechanisms
• Multilateral
– Regional Institutions (approx. 200)
• Track 1
• Track 2
(high level/official) e.g. ARF, ASEAN, PIF…
(strategic study centres, academia, officials)
e.g. CSCAP, ASEAN-ISIS…
• Other?
- Track 1 ½ and track 3? (IISS Shagri-La
Dialogue…)
• Bilateral
- Ministerial meetings
(NZ Foreign Minister and the EU
presidency, the Commissioner for External Relations and the
Council HR)
•
Informal Diplomacy
Methodology
• Methods of Data Collection
– Archival Method
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
– Case Studies
• Aceh
• Fiji
– Interviews
• Structures Interviews with political elite (NZ and EU)
Methodology…
• Theory
– Constructive thought (predominantly in a regional
context –)
• Periphery Political Theory
• constructivism posits that common ideals, established
through social learning, will construct decision makers’
ideas and interests
“we are what we are by how we interact rather than being
what we are regardless of how we interact”
- Alexander Wendt
“We construct worlds in a world we do not know”
– N. G. Onuf
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
Unity In Diversity
Chapter Proposals
• Chapter 1
(Methodology)
(Literature Review)
• Chapter 2
(setting the scene)
- What dialogue currently exists
- What is the function of the dialogue
- How has the past events shaped the present
• Chapter 3
(perceptions)
- Interviews
i. limitations of interviews
ii. Results of interviews
iii. EU and NZ definitions of security
iv. EU and NZ definitions of region(s)
- How various perceptions affect the EU-NZ relationship
- What influences the relationship
Chapter Proposals…
• Chapter 4
(EU Intervention in Asia-Pacific – defining their perceptions
through their actions)
- How the EU external policy works
- Why the EU are in the Asia-Pacific and what are they are
doing
- Member State security association with New Zealand
• Chapter 5
- Aceh and Fiji
- What does it tell us about EU global actorness
• Chapter 6
- Ethics of intervention
• Chapter 7 (Conclusion)
- Summarising, evaluations and proposals
- EU as a normative power?
- The future?
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Pacific Island Forum
Australia
Cook Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
Kiribati
Nauru
New Zealand
Niue
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Samoa Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Canada, China, European Union, France, India, Indonesia,
Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Phillippines, UK, USA