Focusing on the economic, developmental, political and cultural
issues of its member states, this book offers a critical assessment
of the ASEM process since its inception in 1996, which now brings
together all 27 EU members, the European Commission, and 16 East
Asian states. The underlying theme of the book is that the
Asia-Europe Meeting should be analyzed as an instance of
international dialogue - in this case, dialogue between two groups
of states from two different regions - rather than as a
manifestation of two regions acting jointly to perform specific
functions at an 'interregional' level. The conclusion is that with
the exception of the discussion on the fight against international
terrorism and the cultural dialogue, the Asia-Europe dialogue
rarely meets the ideal conditions for international dialogue. The
way forward proposed by the book in the conclusion involves a new
approach combining the European practices of multilevel governance,
variable geometry and several speeds.
Using a unique and an innovative theoretical framework
synthesizing the work of Tzvetan Todorov and Jurgen Habermas, and
supported by extensive empirical research, this book will be of
huge interest to students and scholars of Asian and European
politics, as well as comparative politics, international relations
and EU-Asia relations.
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