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This article considers New Zealand's accession to the Asia–Europe Meeting, considering both its formal path to membership and the evolving calculus by which its views of the process were structured, focusing on elements such as the enabling context provided by a change of national government in 2008, the impact of the global financial crisis and the position of Australia. Drawing on a set of interviews undertaken within the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, it goes on to examine perceived benefits of the Asia–Europe Meeting for New Zealand, and the extent to which these have been achieved. Finally, it addresses the issue of a New Zealand ASEM strategy, outlining potential areas for future engagement.

The European Union and Interregionalism is the most comprehensive study of interregionalism to date, providing a vigorous analysis of its role and functions in the architecture of global governance and of the place of qualitative differences between regional actors in shaping interregional relationships. This book should be read by all those engaged in consideration of interregional structures.

This article examines the first two decades of the transregional Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) from its inception with the Bangkok Summit of 1996. Examining instances of region building and the socialisation of states, it identifies the gradual emergence of a role for the forum, one that stands in some contrast to initial participant expectations. In this respect, rather than a structure for delivering substantive negotiated outcomes around issues such as trade liberalisation, the value of ASEM across its first 20 years came increasingly to be seen in its ideational aspects: identity building, norm diffusion, and dialogue without preconceptions.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- Preface -- Authors' Notes -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Overview -- Institutional and external contexts -- The focus of this book -- 1 Theories and Concepts -- The changing vision of development -- Development and integration theory -- Where is the developing world? -- 2 The ACP: From Yaoundé to Cotonou -- The Yaoundé Conventions -- The Lomé Conventions: I and II (1976-85) -- The Lomé Conventions: III and IV (1985-2000) -- The 1996-2000 Reform Process -- Conclusion -- 3 Parallel Paradigms: Cotonou, Economic Partnership Agreements and Everything But Arms -- Negotiating Cotonou -- Implementing Cotonou -- Economic Partnership Agreements -- Everything But Arms -- Conclusion -- 4 The Changing Institutional Setting: Policy-Making, Commission Reforms, ECHO, EuropeAid and the EEAS -- Decision-taking in EU development policy -- Reforming development: from Santer to Barroso -- ECHO -- EuropeAid -- Lisbon Treaty reforms and development -- Conclusion -- 5 Latin America: Exporting Regionalism -- Early relations -- The aid dimension -- Conclusion -- 6 Asia: From Development to Dialogue -- Asia: beginning a dialogue -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations -- The Asia-Europe Meeting -- The aid dimension -- Conclusion -- 7 Complementarity and Conditionality -- Complementarity -- Conditionality: good governance, democracy, human rights and the rule of law -- Economic conditionality: liberalization, structural adjustment and debt -- Implementing conditionality -- Conclusion -- 8 The EU and the Global Governance Development Agenda -- Official Development Assistance -- Prioritizing Africa -- MDGs: from consensus to momentum -- Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion: Themes and Future Directions -- Bibliography -- Index.