Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Table of Principal Treaties
- Part I The Legal and Policy Context for EU–Korea Relations
- Part II Trade and Economic Integration between the EU and Korea
- Part III Beyond Trade and Economic Cooperation: Wider Issues in EU–Korea Relations
- 9 Overview of the EU–Korea Framework Agreement
- 10 A Common Institutional Framework for EU–Korea Relations
- 11 Cooperation in the Field of International Peace and Security: A Newcomer to the Legal Framework for EU–Korea Relations
- 12 Environmental Cooperation between the EU and Korea
- 13 The Legal Framework for EU–Korea Climate Change Cooperation: Opportunities and Challenges under the Framework Agreement and the Free Trade Agreement
- 14 Cooperation in the Field of Personal Data Protection: One World, One Standard?
- Index
11 - Cooperation in the Field of International Peace and Security: A Newcomer to the Legal Framework for EU–Korea Relations
from Part III - Beyond Trade and Economic Cooperation: Wider Issues in EU–Korea Relations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Table of Principal Treaties
- Part I The Legal and Policy Context for EU–Korea Relations
- Part II Trade and Economic Integration between the EU and Korea
- Part III Beyond Trade and Economic Cooperation: Wider Issues in EU–Korea Relations
- 9 Overview of the EU–Korea Framework Agreement
- 10 A Common Institutional Framework for EU–Korea Relations
- 11 Cooperation in the Field of International Peace and Security: A Newcomer to the Legal Framework for EU–Korea Relations
- 12 Environmental Cooperation between the EU and Korea
- 13 The Legal Framework for EU–Korea Climate Change Cooperation: Opportunities and Challenges under the Framework Agreement and the Free Trade Agreement
- 14 Cooperation in the Field of Personal Data Protection: One World, One Standard?
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
The inclusion of international peace and security is one of the most notable developments in the new EU-Korea Framework Agreement, in comparison with the 1996 Framework Agreement for Trade and Cooperation. The 1996 Agreement largely focused on the economic aspects of cooperation, leaving security issues largely untouched. By contrast, security cooperation is mentioned frequently in the preamble to the new EU-Korea Framework Agreement, and this issue is incorporated into several substantive articles. Moreover, to mark the importance of security cooperation, the articles on security cooperation appear earlier than that on economic cooperation, that is, from Articles 4 to 7.
Such a marked difference between the two agreements begs two crucial questions: (1) what are the reasons for the extension of the Korea-EU cooperation towards security issues? and (2) what is the potential for further cooperation in this area?
Focusing on the first question, one should note that the security issues inserted in the new Framework Agreement are rather selective and do not cover a comprehensive range of security problems. In particular, traditional defence issues are not covered by the new Framework Agreement. Why did the two parties choose these issues to be covered by the Framework Agreement, but not others? To answer this question, it is necessary to investigate the changes in the security perspectives of both Korea and the EU, during the period since the conclusion of the 1996 Framework Agreement.
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- The European Union and South KoreaThe Legal Framework for Strengthening Trade, Economic and Political Relations, pp. 177 - 193Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2013