Regional Integration and Institutional Change in East Asia and the European Union

A Study of Drivers of Regionalism and Their Limits
Herausgegeben:Voogsgeerd, Herman; Akita, Shigeru

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses the drivers and mechanisms of institutional change in Europe and East Asia during times of international crisis. Under what conditions and through what processes does a form of regionalism or regionalization change? Why is there a different pace of development, and what mechanism is responsible for institutional change? Is it simply copying, or are there other mechanisms at work? Why do regions institutionalize, and why don't others?

We will distinguish between "regionalization" and "regionalism." While the former is a bottom-up process involving all kinds of citizens, non-governmental organizations, and academic circles, the latter is a top-down activity. It is the work of states, public international organizations, and diplomats. This book focuses on both phenomena. One could argue that East Asia first experienced regionalization, followed by regionalism. In the EU, however, it may be the other way around, as international organizations and elites have largely driven the integration project thus far.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89535756, 978-981-95-1075-7
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm
• ISBN-13: 9789819510757
• ISBN-10: 9819510759
• Artikelnr.: 74852222

Autorenporträt

Herman VOOGSGEERD holds degrees in public international and EU law and in contemporary history. His Ph.D. from 2000 was on European internal market law. He works as a senior lecturer in International Political Economy at the department of International Relations and International Organization (Faculty of Arts) and in the department of Business, European and Tax Law, both at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. His research interests focus on balancing social and economic rights in the European internal market, on EU trade policy and on the rise of Asia. His publications include ‘Building the Common Market but preventing chaos. The continuing relevance of the principle of territoriality of a Europe made by judges’, in M. Burgess, H. Vollaard (eds.), State Territoriality and European Integration Europe and the Nation State Series, (Routledge, 2006); ‘Trade Unions, Civil Society, Democracy and Authority in Japan’, in C. K. Lamont, J. van der Harst and F. Gaenssmantel (eds.), Non-Western Encounters with Democratization. Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring (Ashgate, 2015); ‘International Labour Standards (ILS) as a Sine-Qua-Non of Bilateral and Multilateral Governance of International Trade’, in F. Gaenssmantel, C. Wu and F. Giumelli (eds.) Multilateralism at Peril. The Uneasy Triangle of EU, US and China (Routledge, 2023); and ‘“System friction” in China-EU economic relations and the reaction of the EU’, Asia-Europe Journal. Studies on Common Policy Challenges, (Springer, 2023).   Shigeru AKITA is Designated Professor of the Matrix Center, Institute of Laser Technologies, and Emeritus Professor (Graduate School of Humanities) of the University of Osaka, Japan. He has worked at the University of Osaka from 1985 to 2024, as Professor of Global History, Graduate School of Humanities, and as head of the Global History Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI). He was President of the Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH) (2015-2022) and was awarded the Twentieth Ohira Memorial Prize in June 2004 from the Ohira Memorial Foundation, and the Fourteenth Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Prize in July 2013 from Yomiuri Newspaper and Chuo-Koron Shinsha. He received a Medal with Purple Ribbon from the government of Japan in November 2022. His major publications include History of the British Empire from Asian Perspectives (Singapore: Springer, 2025); (ed.) Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of International Order: Economy, Development, and Aid in Asia and Africa (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023); and (ed.) American Empire in Global History (London and New York: Routledge, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Regions, Regional Integration Agreements, Regionalism and Regionalization.- The Historical Path-Dependency of Modern East Asia and Chinese Diplomacy.- Unicity and Complexity: a History of European Union, 1945-2025.- The Role of the European Court of Justice in the European Integration Process and the Sustainability of the European Multi Level Legal Order.- From the Colombo Plan to Asia-Pacific Cooperation: Transfer of Hegemony and Japanese Plans for Open Regionalism .- The Euro Crisis and Changing Governance of the Economic Monetary System: More Regionalism at the Expense of Regionalization ?.- Why Does the Euro s Survival Matter?: Financial Integration in East Asia and the European Union.- Harmonization and Diversification of Contract Conflicts: a Reappraisal.- The Future of Regions in East Asia and the EU: Possible Scenarios.- Regionalism and Regionalization between Market Forces and Intergovernmental Relations.