Globalization and regional integration in Europe and Asia (Ashgate, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
American primacy and Europeanist responses / Peter Gowan -- European integration and the future of nation state / Jaime Pastor -- Globalization, transnational corporations and human rights / Chinsung Chung -- The European experience : the millionfold trauma of the 20th century is still virulent / Holger Heide -- Europe and East Asia : holistic convergence or fundamental skeptic? / Nam-Kook Kim -- Regional integration and income disparities : the lessons of Europe for East Asia / Woosik Moon, Kyung Ae Han -- On an East Asian community, or, Kant's cosmopolitan right reconsidered / Motohide Saji -- Openness and inclusiveness : unfolding regionalism in northeast Asia / Yongtao Liu -- Beyond the East Asian grand division : imagining an East Asian peace belt of Jeju-Okinawa-Taiwan islands / Samsung Lee
"This volume discusses the current trend of globalization and the main characteristics of world order, focusing specifically on the destiny of the nation state, the threat against human rights, and conflicts between unilateral hegemony of the USA and Europe. It examines the contemporary European experience and compares it with Asian reality with a view to implications for the future development of Asia. It also discusses regional integration as a framework for bringing stable peace, exploring detailed principles and specific forms of a regional community in Asia. Contributors from Europe and Asia critically review previous literature on this topic and suggest new theoretical and empirical grounds of regional community in Asia. The book takes the viewpoint of comparative civilization and experiences of European integration to offer meaningful lessons for the future of nation states and the possibility of building regional communities in Asia."--Book cover