The Evolving Integration in East Asia - Too Many Reservations?

Wolfgang Pape 

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
April 29, 2013

CEPS Essay No. 5 / 29 April 2013 
Abstract:      
East Asian economic integration is less well known in Europe than is desirable in the EU’s own enlightened self-interest. It is also badly understood, not least because a range of ‘soft’ cultural, historical and political aspects are insufficiently appreciated in Europe. This CEPS Essay offers a deeper personal reflection on the emergence and development of East Asian economic cooperation and market-driven integration. It attempts to address some of the lingering reservations on both sides and to render the reservations in East Asia more intelligible to Europeans.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 16

Keywords: East Asia, Europe, economic cooperation, integration

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