Europe and Asia - Regions in Flux

This book aims to enhance our understanding of European Union-East Asia relations and of European and Asian regional integration in a comparative context. This edited collection is distinctively multidisciplinary in approach, bringing together a set of contributions which, although they share common themes, are nonetheless diverse in their subject matter and disciplinary approaches. In investigating the external impact of the EU on the East Asian region, this book contributes to our understanding both of the EU as a political, economic and security actor with civil society dimensions and of its regional integration agenda and that agenda's influence on East Asia. In bringing together scholars from three continents, the book aims not simply to provide an examination of EU–East Asia relations, but also to explore the idea that the EU might constitute a paradigm for East Asian regionalism. It examines EU links with East Asia in the Asia Europe Meetings (ASEM), the role of formal and informal integration and networks within the East Asian region, the new wave of regionalism in Asia and the role of institutions and actors.

Europe and Asia: Two Regions in Flux?; P.Murray The EU, ASEAN and APEC in Comparative Perspective; A.Warleigh-Lack The East Asian Experience of Regionalism; D.McDougall Comparing and Contrasting Economic Integration in the Asia Pacific Region and Europe; B.Andreosso-O'Callaghan Political Integration in the European Union: Any Lessons for ASEAN?; E.Moxon-Browne The Origins and Development of ASEM and EU-East Asia Relations; Yeo,.L.H. The Economic Geography of Regionalization in East Asia and Europe; C.Dent European and Asian Security and the Role of Regional Organizations in the Post-9/11 Environment; N.Rees Asian (ASEAN Plus Three) Perspectives on European Integration; T.Tanaka European Perspectives on Engaging with East Asia; P.Murray