The EU and NZ Security Relationship

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The EU and NZ Security Relationship
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OUTLINE

• Research Question
• Security Mechanisms
• Methodology
• Chapter Proposals

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Research Question Formulation

• Why Study EU-NZ security dialogue in the
  Asia-Pacific region?
• 1. Common Security Cultures?
• the 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

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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?...
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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?

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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..)

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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?

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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

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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

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Methodology

• Methods of Data Collection
• Archival Method
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Case Studies
• Aceh
• Fiji
• Interviews
• Structures Interviews with political elite (NZ
  and EU)

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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

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Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
Unity In Diversity
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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

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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?

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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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