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A 12 page research paper that encompasses two separate essays concerning the EU and EU relations with the countries of the Asian/Pacific region and Latin America. The first essay explores the motivation behind EU policies in the Asian/Pacific region (altruism or economics?) and the second essay explores how the EU has spurred regional associations in these areas and whether this has hindered or facilitated developing relations with the EU. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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and the countries of the Asia and Pacific region. This interest necessarily brings up the question of the motivation behind EU trade initiatives. What are the primary motivating factors behind
EU policy toward Asian/Pacific countries? Is it self interest or does EU concern spring mainly from moral and ethical concerns? In order to answer this question, an examination of
specific EU policies, not surprisingly, shows that while there is an element of self interest in the EU policy, as these instruments serve to connect the EU with a potentially
huge market, these policies also show a good deal of altruistic intention as the EU seems to be intent facilitating development in these countries, economically and politically. In 1996,
Goh Chok Tong, Singapores prime minister, proposed strengthening the relations between Asian countries and the EU. The Asian/European meetings (ASEM) that resulted from his suggestion basically arose from the
realization on both sides that Asian-European relations were in a state of neglect. Since that time, the EU has been strengthening its relationship to Asian and Pacific countries on several
fronts. EU policies toward the Asian/Pacific region reveal that there is certainly an economic/self-interest component that motivates EU policy in part, but there is also an altruistic component that is
concerned with humanitarian and developmental issues. In other words, there is an altruistic component that seems to indicate a genuine interest in moral and ethical concerns. However, such concerns are
necessarily mixed with political implications. For example, one of the overriding motivations behind the renewed EU interest in Asia has been a consequence of a need to successfully meet
the challenges offered by the end of the Cold War period (Forster, 1999). By creating a structured contract with Asian and Pacific countries, the EU reestablished its "credentials as a
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