title: The EU and the Indo-Pacific
abstract: In the mid-1990s, the European Union (EU) identified the Asia-Pacific as one of its key strategic targets.At that time, the Union was driven by the ambition to expand the focus of its external action beyond its immediate neighbourhoods, building on the still embryonic, yet high-profile, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).The ensuing decades have seen a profound reconfiguration of the international order, marked, inter alia, by a shift in the balance of power towards Asia, that has been