Japan And Enlarged Europe

Author : Takako Ueta,Eric Remacle
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9052012598

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Japan and Enlarged Europe by Takako Ueta,Eric Remacle Pdf

Japan and the European Union are two «civilian powers» that have dramatically extended and diversified their role on the world stage and that have launched together an Action Plan dealing with peace and stability, economic, environmental, commercial and financial governance, and cultural exchanges and cooperation. Their bilateral cooperation has been intensified as well as their cross contribution to the G8 and multilateral organisations like the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation. In parallel, their respective domestic and international positions have changed. The EU has integrated ten new members, adopted a Constitution and developed a security and defence policy. Japan has widened its international and security role and reorganised most of its economic policies. Therefore, Japan and the enlarged European Union are actors and partners in the process of global governance. This book addresses the cooperation between Japan and the enlarged European Union for a more secure world, sustainable development and global governance. It gathers contributions from European and Japanese experts who have established a permanent network on this topic and meet every year for seminars in Brussels under the aegis of the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) and its Belgian member organisation Study Group on European Policies (SEP-GEPE), with the support of the Japan Foundation. The book is a joint Japanese-European contribution to the Year of Japan-European Union People-to-People Exchanges declared in 2005.

Author : János Hoós,Kumiko Haba,Tibor Palánkai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCSD:31822033408048

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The Enlargement of the European Union Toward Central Europe and the Role of the Japanese Economy by János Hoós,Kumiko Haba,Tibor Palánkai Pdf

Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1969-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0804774161

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The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 by Donald Keene Pdf

This is an account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan from 1720 to 1830. These are the dates of the beginning of official interest in Western learning and of the expulsion of Siebold from the country, the first stage of a crisis that could be resolved only by the opening of the country of the West. The century and more included by the two dates was a most important period in Japanese history, when intellectuals, rebelling at the isolation of their country, desperately sought knowledge from abroad. The amazing energy and enthusiasm of men like Honda Toshiaki made possible the spectacular changes in Japan, which are all too often credited to the arrival of Commodore Perry. The author chose Honda Toshiaki (1744-1821) as his central figure. A page from any one of Honda's writings suffices to show that with him one has entered a new age, that of modern Japan. One finds in his books a new spirit, restless, curious and receptive. There is in him the wonder at new discoveries, the delight in widening horizons. Honda took a kind of pleasure even in revealing that Japan, after all, was only a small island in a large world. To the Japanese who had thought of Chinese civilization as being immemorial antiquity, he declared that Egypt's was thousands of years older and far superior. The world, he discovered, was full of wonderful things, and he insisted that Japan take advantage of them. Honda looked at Japan as he thought a Westerner might, and saw things that had to be changed, terrible drains on the country's moral and physical strength. Within him sprang the conviction that Japan must become one of the great nations of the world.

Author : Gordon Daniels,Reinhard Drifte
Publisher : RoutledgeCurzon
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012286228

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Europe and Japan by Gordon Daniels,Reinhard Drifte Pdf

Author : Marie Conte-Helm
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018324280

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The Japanese and Europe by Marie Conte-Helm Pdf

Japanese investment in Europe has been growing by leaps and bounds and this book charts the course of this phenomenon, looking both at the Japanese experience of Europe and the European experience of the Japanese, and social, cultural and economic consequences of this encounter. The Japanese and Europe provides a contemporary snap-shot, based upon a wealth of interviews and fully-illustrated by photographs, maps and diagrams.

Author : Axel Berkofsky,Christopher W. Hughes,Paul Midford,Marie Söderberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351172141

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The EU–Japan Partnership in the Shadow of China by Axel Berkofsky,Christopher W. Hughes,Paul Midford,Marie Söderberg Pdf

Both the European Union and Japan have been major beneficiaries and supporters of the liberal international order, first led by the United States since the end of World War II. During this period, they have emerged as global powers, however, the very order that nurtured their rise is now facing twin threats. First, through authoritarian China’s promotion of alternative models of global governance, and second from a crisis of liberalism, manifested in the policies of President Donald Trump and Brexit. This book explores these challenges faced by both the EU and Japan, providing a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between the two. It analyses their cooperation in terms of security, defence and trade and examines how their shared normative values are ultimately implemented. Having recently concluded an Economic Partnership Agreement and with a Strategic Partnership Agreement in the pipeline, this book asks whether they can convert their latent and modest cooperation into an alternative form of leadership and an antidote to the illiberal tide sweeping the developed world? As the first book to shed light on the new Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Japan, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as European Union politics and international political economy more generally.

Author : Professor Hartmut Mayer,Professor Hidetoshi Nakamura,Professor Paul Bacon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472457486

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The European Union and Japan by Professor Hartmut Mayer,Professor Hidetoshi Nakamura,Professor Paul Bacon Pdf

The EU and Japan have one of the most important trade relationships in the world. Fittingly, this book presents a detailed analysis of their bilateral regulatory environment and negotiation processes. Moreover, the two polities have also co-operated extensively in bilateral and multilateral contexts on a range of global governance issues. Nevertheless, the relationship is widely acknowledged to have significant untapped potential. Deploying the concept of civilian power, the book takes a fresh, honest and provocative look at this important relationship, in a post-Fukushima, post-sovereign debt crisis world. First the book analyses the place of EU-Japan relations within the worldviews of the Japanese and European bodies politic. Subsequently, three thematic sections evaluate their cooperation on such issues as trade, energy security, environmental politics, development, human rights, post-conflict reconstruction, health and biosecurity. The eminent scholars of the EU-Japan relationship gathered in this book offer informed, empirically rich and policy-relevant insights into the present and future prospects for the relationship.

Author : Jörn Keck,Dimitri Vanoverbeke,Franz Waldenberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134049981

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EU-Japan Relations, 1970-2012 by Jörn Keck,Dimitri Vanoverbeke,Franz Waldenberger Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations from 1970 to the present. It charts developments over the period, analyses key specific areas of importance to the relationship, and concludes by assessing how the relationship is likely to develop going forward. Throughout, the book discusses the factors on both sides which motivate the relationship, including Japan’s concern to secure markets for its advanced industrial products, and the factors motivating current negotiations for a deeper and more comprehensive economic and cooperative partnership.

Author : Olena Mykal
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789089641632

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The EU-Japan Security Dialogue by Olena Mykal Pdf

Een onderzoek naar de veiligheidsdialoog tussen Japan en EU vanaf de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw tot op heden.

Author : Oliviero Frattolillo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135052225

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Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations by Oliviero Frattolillo Pdf

Since the 1950s, Japan-Europe relations have been characterised by a mutual coldness in terms of diplomatic dialogue, punctuated by a number of trade disputes. This book analyses the development of the political and diplomatic relationship between Japan and Europe, and shows that – especially during the Cold War years – whilst they share a wide range of political values and goals, the quality of diplomatic relations has often been sacrificed to both overcome trade issues and as a result of systemic factors. Focusing on the institutionalization of relations between Japan and the EU, this book examines both the historical-diplomatic dimension and political-strategic discourse. It traces the historical development of the relationship from the post-war years, to the signing of the Japan-EU action plan in 2001, which marked a key turning point in the relationship. It goes on to examine the achievements and criticisms of ASEM, the Asia-Europe Meeting, which whilst meeting successfully for the past sixteen years, has also been condemned as little more than a talking shop. Crucially, Oliviero Frattolillo’s analysis clearly demonstrates how the interaction between Japan and the EU has been constructed on the basis of their perceptions of each other, thus underlining the inherent impact of different political identities, cultures and values on international relations. Providing a keen insight into Japan-EU relations, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese and European history and politics, as well as those interested in the history of international relations and security studies.

Author : Paul Bacon,Hartmut Mayer,Hidetoshi Nakamura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317033004

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The European Union and Japan by Paul Bacon,Hartmut Mayer,Hidetoshi Nakamura Pdf

The EU and Japan have one of the most important trade relationships in the world. Fittingly, this book presents a detailed analysis of their bilateral regulatory environment and negotiation processes. Moreover, the two polities have also co-operated extensively in bilateral and multilateral contexts on a range of global governance issues. Nevertheless, the relationship is widely acknowledged to have significant untapped potential. Deploying the concept of civilian power, the book takes a fresh, honest and provocative look at this important relationship, in a post-Fukushima, post-sovereign debt crisis world. First the book analyses the place of EU-Japan relations within the worldviews of the Japanese and European bodies politic. Subsequently, three thematic sections evaluate their cooperation on such issues as trade, energy security, environmental politics, development, human rights, post-conflict reconstruction, health and biosecurity. The eminent scholars of the EU-Japan relationship gathered in this book offer informed, empirically rich and policy-relevant insights into the present and future prospects for the relationship.

Author : Julie Gilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000769562

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EU–Japan Relations and the Crisis of Multilateralism by Julie Gilson Pdf

Presenting the history of relations between the European Union and Japan, this book explains the origins and significance of the momentous 2018 Economic Partnership Agreement and its parallel Strategic Partnership Agreement. Set within the historical context of the 1991 Hague Declaration and Action Plan of 2001, this book analyses the impact of recent background changes to the liberal trading order, the proliferation of free trade agreements, and uncertainty about role of the United States in the world on relations between Japan and the EU. Adopting a path-dependent approach, it illustrates how these agreements were reached as a result of growing patterns of cooperative behaviour between the EU and Japan, and the imprint of shared past experiences in areas from trade to security. In so doing, this book also raises important questions about the future of multilateral cooperation, exploring the potential for bilateral agreements to undermine the possibility of finding international solutions to increasingly international problems. EU–Japan Relations and the Crisis of Multilateralism will appeal to students and scholars of European and Japanese politics and international relations, as well as policymakers internationally with an interest in these significant agreements.

Author : François Foret,Airo Hino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000487381

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Value Politics in Japan and Europe by François Foret,Airo Hino Pdf

This book explains the increasing importance of value politics in Europe and Japan, shedding light on various arenas: social values; parties, elections and politics; public action, private sector and law; identity politics and religion; media and public spheres. It analyses how, against different but commensurable backgrounds, the rise of value politics alters (or not) the political game, for which purposes and with which effects. Applying both qualitative and quantitative methods from a wide range of primary and secondary sources, the comparison is organized by joining skills from experts of Japan and Europe and by systematizing a common analytical framework for the two cases. As such, it presents a revealing and unique analysis of the changing relationship between values and political behaviour in the two polities. Beyond the comparison, it also documents the opportunities and challenges underlying the interactions between Europe, Japan and the rest of the world; and the competition/combination between different versions of modernity. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of European studies and politics, Asian politics/studies, Japanese studies/politics and more broadly to comparative politics, sociology, cultural/media studies, and economics.

Author : Emil J. Kirchner,Han Dorussen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429850752

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EU-Japan Security Cooperation by Emil J. Kirchner,Han Dorussen Pdf

This book assesses EU-Japan security relations, examining how they have developed in individual security sectors and how they could be affected by international developments. The conclusions of the Economic Partnership Agreement and the Strategic Partnership Agreement in 2017 demonstrate the steady growth in EU-Japan political relations. Since the 1990s, dialogues between the EU and Japan have benefitted from extensive trade and investment ties and shared liberal values. Based on collaborative research by European and Japanese scholars, this book provides an in-depth, systematic and comparative analysis of the extent to which the EU and Japan have achieved concrete actions in the pursuance of security cooperation across a range of key areas such as nuclear proliferation, regional security, international terrorism, and energy and climate security. Further, it seeks to explain why some security sectors (such as economic and cybersecurity) have resulted in more extensive EU-Japan cooperation, while others lag behind (such as military and regional security). Common declarations and actions of shared interest and concerns have often led to only modest levels of security collaboration, and the book highlights factors that may be seen as intervening between intention and action, such as the role of external actors, for instance China and the US, and the constraints of internal EU and domestic Japanese politics. This book will be of much interest to students of European security, Japanese politics, diplomacy studies and international relations.

Author : Dimitri Vanoverbeke,Takao Suami,Takako Ueta,Nicholas Peeters,Frederik Ponjaert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351664943

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Developing EU–Japan Relations in a Changing Regional Context by Dimitri Vanoverbeke,Takao Suami,Takako Ueta,Nicholas Peeters,Frederik Ponjaert Pdf

Relations between the EU and East Asia have consistently expanded in recent years, particularly between the EU and Japan. Against the background of negotiations on an economic and strategic partnership agreement, the EU–Japan relationship is set to become the single most comprehensive ‘region-to-state’ relationship the world has known today, accounting for more than a third of world GDP and a combined population of more than 600 million people. This book addresses the potential role of the EU, in cooperation with Japan, to craft a stable and prosperous mode of governance in the Asian region. In today’s globalized world seemingly defined by waxing Chinese power and waning American power, the book reflects the lack of appreciation for an EU-Japan concert in maintaining and developing multilateral principles. It aims towards fortifying this relationship by acknowledging that in order to enhance the credibility and capabilities of such an alliance, it is necessary to take stock of where the partnership stands today, what kind of obstacles still need to be overcome and which options have been left untouched. By introducing state-of-the-art empirical research in multiple fields, this book will be of key interest to students and scholars of international relations, comparative regionalism, the European Union and Japanese politics.