1st Edition
Regional Integration in East Asia and Europe Convergence or Divergence?
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
