Europe and Asia

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.