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European and Asian Security and the role of regional organizations in the post-9/11 environment

The research for this chapter was part of book project which examines European integration and East Asian regionalism. I focus on looking at the impact of 9/11 on the EU and ASEAN with aim of understanding the response of these organisations to external security threats. The study looks at how and in what ways the regional organisations responded to the events of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks. It looks at what impact this had on regional security cooperation, as well as the prospects for enhanced EU-Asian security cooperation. The research highlights the different approaches and responses of the two regional organisations to such threats, reflecting different attitudes and organisational structures. The study concludes that there is growing intra- and inter-regional dialogue, with greater evidence of knowledge and policy transfer taking place within and between the “regions”.