1st Edition
Asia and Latin America Political, Economic and Multilateral Relations
1. Introduction: The three-phase Encounter of Two Continents Jörn Dosch Part I : The Interests and Strategies of States and their Actors 2. Is China the Avant-Garde of East Asia in Latin America? Manfred Mols 3. Poaching in the Hegemon’s Backyard? Relations between China and Latin America and the US response Alberto Camarena 4. Japan and Latin America – can the Koizumi effect last? Caroline Rose 5. Transnational Migration and Identity - Brazil and Japan Share a Work Force June A. Gordon 6. Vietnam's Policy towards Latin America after the Cold War Ta Minh Tuan 7. Mexico’s East Asia Strategy Melba E. Falck Reyes and José Luis León-Manríquez 8. Peru and Chile: The Challenge of playing a determinant role in Multilateral Pacific Fora Olaf Jacob Part II: Multilateral and Inter-regional Relations 9. Interregionalism Without Regions: IBSA as a Form of Shallow Multilateralism Jürgen Rüland and Karsten Bechle 10. MERCOSUR’s Relations with East Asian Countries: A Critical Assessment Amalia Stuhldreher 11. Trade Bilateralism between Latin America and East Asia – Notions on the interplay with the WTO Howard Loewen 12. Non-Triadic Interregionalism: The case of FEALAC Gracia Abad 13. Inter-regionalism: A Comparative Analysis of ASEM and FEALAC Charalambos Tsardanidis
Biography
Jörn Dosch is Professor of Asia Pacific Studies and Director of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He was previously a Fulbright Scholar at the Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, and a Lecturer at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Olaf Jacob works at the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation where he is Director of the Regional Program ‘Economic and Social Order in Latin America’ in Rio de Janeiro. He is a former professor of Latin American and Asian Economics Studies at the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru.
