Europe's Indo-Pacific Pivot

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This is the first book exploring Europe’s engagement with the Indo-Pacific region. Its novel comparative perspective favours a “bird’s eye view” of Europe’s unfolding Indo-Pacific pivot and nuances the many priorities and mechanisms that are involved in this process.

The volume provides a wide-scoped account of Europe’s policies on the Indo-Pacific, comprising both the EU and Europe’s major, middle, and minor powers. It also offers a careful assessment of the resulting implications, including trends, commonalities and differences, advantages and risks, and consequences for cross-regional cooperation.

Endorsed by experts from universities, think tanks, and international institutions, this book is meant for academics, policymakers, and diplomats, as well as journalists and students interested in Europe’s growing focus on the Indo-Pacific.

Dr. Gabriele Abbondanza is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Comillas Pontifical University (Spain); Associate Researcher at the University of Sydney (Australia); and Associate Fellow at the Italian Institute of International Affairs – IAI (Italy). He is a former Marie Curie Fellow and lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid. He specialises in the Indo-Pacific, Australian and Italian foreign policy; irregular migration governance; and middle power and great power theory. He has published widely on these subjects, including numerous articles in leading journals, four monographs, and two edited volumes. Dr. Abbondanza teaches international relations, security studies, and migration politics, and he regularly contributes to media, public, and institutional debates.

Dr. Gorana Grgić is a Senior Researcher in Transatlantic Security and Acting Head of the Swiss and Euro-Atlantic Security team at the ETH Zürich’s Center for Security Studies. She is also a Senior Lecturer at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Gorana’s research interests include US and EU foreign policy, NATO, and the nexus between Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security. She has held academic and advisory roles across institutions in Europe, Australia, and the United States, and frequently contributes to international media. 

This is the first book exploring Europe’s engagement with the Indo-Pacific region. Its novel comparative perspective favours a “bird’s eye view” of Europe’s unfolding Indo-Pacific pivot and nuances the many priorities and mechanisms that are involved in this process.

The volume provides a wide-scoped account of Europe’s policies on the Indo-Pacific, comprising both the EU and Europe’s major, middle, and minor powers. It also offers a careful assessment of the resulting implications, including trends, commonalities and differences, advantages and risks, and consequences for cross-regional cooperation.

Endorsed by experts from universities, think tanks, and international institutions, this book is meant for academics, policymakers, and diplomats, as well as journalists and students interested in Europe’s growing focus on the Indo-Pacific.

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“An empirically-rich and thought-provoking assessment of why the Indo-Pacific region matters to Europe and Euro-Atlantic security and how different European countries are engaging with this strategically key region of the world. A highly timely and relevant book for scholars and policy-makers alike.” (Dr. Benedetta Berti, Director of Policy Planning, NATO)

“Europe's Indo-Pacific pivot has the potential to transform security strategies for both Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific alliances. Abbondanza and Grgic provide an invaluable assessment of the roots of Europe's turn to the East and the factors that might yet imperil it.” (Prof. Dr. Michael J. Green, Professor and CEO at the United States Studies Centre)

“Despite security crises close to home, European diplomacy has been relatively quick and open-minded in coming to terms with the new realities of Asia-centric geopolitics. In national capitals and EU institutions alike, Europe is recasting its statecraft through the prism of the Indo-Pacific as a two-ocean system at the heart of global power dynamics. This development has been understudied, until now. Gorana Grgic and Gabriele Abbondanza are to be commended for this book, which makes sense of Europe's Indo-Pacific pivot with depth and rigour.” (Prof. Dr. Rory Medcalf, Head of the National Security College, Australian National University, and author of “Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region”)

“A timely, systematic, and impressive work that's fit for the desks of policy-makers, business leaders, scholars, and libraries across the world. A thorough empirical analysis of Europe's outreach in the Indo-Pacific.” (Prof. Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs; Professor at the Department of Regional and Global Studies at the University of Warsaw; Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies)

“Finally, a comprehensive study of Europe’s tilt towards the Indo-Pacific! An essential reading for anyone interested in the drivers, challenges, and possible role the Old Continent can play in the world’s most dynamic and strategically important mega-region.” (Dr. Eva Pejsova, Japan Chair at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy of the Brussels School of Governance; Associate Fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

“As the Indo-Pacific region moves to the centre stage of global geopolitics and economics, this book offers an excellent primer on Europe’s engagement with that critical region.” (Prof. Dr. Luis Simón, Director of the Research Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Research Professor in International Security at the Brussels School of Governance)

“Richly researched and analytically sharp, this book illuminates an understudied yet important dimension of Indo-Pacific geopolitics: the role of Europe. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the nuances of European engagement in this strategically vital region.” (Prof. Dr. Sarah Teo, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies; Deputy Head of Graduate Studies; Coordinator of the PhD Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University)

“As the interconnectivity between Europe and the Indo-Pacific region becomes ever more conspicuous, this book provides invaluable insights into the full range of stakes and dynamics at play.” (Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilkins, Associate Professor in Government and International Relations, University of Sydney; Distinguished Research Fellow at the Japan Forum for International Relations; Adjunct Senior Fellow (non-resident) at The Pacific Forum)

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