1st Edition
Regional Integration in East Asia and Europe Convergence or Divergence?
A fascinating insight into how regional organizations in Europe and East Asia are currently grappling with a striking number of essentially similar challenges.
This issue-based overview of political integration focuses on the differences and similarities in regional integration levels and processes in the two regions, to examine how the long-term future, role and impact of organizations such as the EU and ASEAN may depend heavily on how well they deal with complex and conflict-laden issues in the next few years.
This volume analyzes the historical development, current state and prospective future evolution of political integration in the two regions. These leading authors identify key variables that account for the contrasting political integration levels, clearly demonstrating and explaining why the rhythm of integration in both regions varies. With contributions from both Asian and European scholars on each topic, this book delivers:
- comparative rather than a single region focus
- breakdowns of regional integration into key issue areas
- analysis of monetary cooperation and integration
- incisive assessments of institutional reform
- key topics of enlargement, including: identity, distributional equity, the distribution of power and effectiveness or decision-making efficiency
- discussion of regional and international security crises
- expert scholarship from both European and Asian perspectives
This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of IPE, international relations, political science, contemporary history and European studies and Asian studies.
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Douglas Webber and Bertrand Fort
PART I
The international context of regionalism
The theory and practice of region: Changing global context
Richard Higgott
PART II
Leadership and power in regional integration
France and Germany: The evolution of a European partnership
Ulrike Guérot
Leadership in the history of Southeast Asian integration: The role of
Indonesia in ASEAN
Dewi Fortuna Anwar
Leadership in institution building: The case of ASEAN+3
Shiping Tang
PART III
Economic and monetary cooperation and integration
The origins, launching and consequences of ‘1992’ and the Euro: The politics of economic and monetary integration in Europe
Jonathan Story
The Chiang Mai Initiative and prospects for closer monetary integration in East Asia
Natasha Hamilton-Hart
PART IV
Conflict over institutional reform
The EU from Amsterdam via Nice to the Constitutional Treaty: Exploring
and explaining recent treaty reforms
Finn Laursen
The development of ASEAN’s diplomatic and security culture: Not beyond
‘flexible engagement’
Jürgen Haacke
PART V
Post-Cold War Enlargement
The challenge of asymmetry: origins, issues and implications of enlarging the European Union
Christian Tuschhoff
The Indo-Chinese enlargement of ASEAN: Enhancing or undermining regional economic integration?
Helen E.S. Nesadurai
The birth and growth of ASEAN+3
Takashi Terada
PART VI
Security and regional crisis management
The elusive quest for a European security and defence policy: From crisis
management to security strategy
Jean-Yves Haine
Regional institutions and regional crises in East Asia: Moving away from the
‘comfort zone’?
Mely Caballero-Anthony
PART VII
Conclusions
Regional integration in Europe and Asia: A historical perspective
Douglas Webber
Europe and Asia: Reflections on a tale of two regionalisms
Amitav Acharya
Biography
Bertrand Fort is Director for Intellectual Exchange at the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore.
Douglas Webber is Professor of Political Science at INSEAD’s Europe campus in Fontainebleau, France, and was based at the school’s Asia campus in Singapore from 1999 to 2005.
'One of the great virtues of this valuable collection is to highlight the different institutional capacities that exist in Asia and Europe and the very different contingent historical circumstances that have shaped them.' - International Institute of Asian Studies
'The text impresses through the topicality of the subject areas chosen and of the research presented.' - Journal of Common Market Studies