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…

MongoliaChinaNorth KoreaSouth KoreaJapanAustraliaNew ZealandFijiSamoaVanuatuPapa New GuineaMarshall IslandsMicronesiaKiribatiTongaCook IslandsFrench PolynesiaTimor LesteVietnamThailandSingaporePhilippinesMyanmarMalaysiaLaosIndonesiaCambodiaBrunei Darussalam

Security Mechanisms

• Multilateral– Regional Institutions (approx. 200)

• Track 1 (high level/official) e.g. ARF, ASEAN, PIF…

• Track 2 (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

Unity In Diversity

Bhinneka Tunggal Ika

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 interviewsii. Results of interviewsiii. EU and NZ definitions of securityiv. 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