Addressing non-traditional security threats under climate change conditions ;
towards a new research agenda on norm diffusion in EU-Asia security relations
While scholarly work and policy speeches have mostly dealt with the EU’s
capabilities and performance in traditional security issues like wars and war-
like intrastate conflicts, the EU’s source of influence in Asia-Pacific seems
rather to lie within its vast amount of expertise and technology concerning
those threats that are most imminent in the Asia Pacific region: non-
traditional security threats such as water, food, energy (in-)securities and
potential conflicts arising over access to scarce, transboundary resources and
impacts of growth policies – intensified by the consequences of climate
change. Drawing on previous research on diffusion mechanisms in EU security
policies towards the Asia- Pacific region, this paper will make the case for
enlarging norm diffusion research in EU-Asia relations to non-traditional
security threats (NTS) and will demonstrate its theoretical as well as social
relevance
