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Dear list members, please have a look at the updated www.asianintegration.org http://www.asianintegration.org/ site, a portal on East Asian integration, including a discussion list, articles and a book review section. The following new book reviews have been added to our site in the past week: Review of: Yong Wook LEE: The Japanese Challenge to the American Neoliberal World Order, Stanford: Stanford University Press 2008. Reviewed by Prof. Werner Pascha, Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST), Duisburg-Essen University, Germany. While Japan has so often been identified with a low-key approach to foreign policy or, at best, with "leadership by stealth", it is noteworthy that it has recently challenged US development policy leadership in the Asian region. In particular, Japan's eventually failed proposal of an Asian Monetary Fund (AMF), leaving out the US, in the midst of the 1997/98 financial crisis showed some astonishing bravado. Why did this happen? What does it tell us about Japan's foreign policy-making? These are the key questions of Yong Wook Lee´s book, a revised doctoral thesis in international relations at the University of Southern California. Needless to say, the "AMF puzzle" is not only of historical interest. Japan has been following up its Asian agenda through the Miyazawa Initiative of 1998 and particularly through the Chiang Mai Initiative of 2000, which is currently being turned into something very close to the original idea of an AMF. Read all at: http://asianintegration.org/index.php?option=com_joomlib&task=view&id=19&Itemid=75 Review of: Europe and Asia. Regions in Flux, Philomena Murray (ed.) ISBN: 978-0-230-54266-2, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2008. Reviewed by Elisabetta Colla, Researcher, Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre, Portugal. Europe and Asia. Regions in Flux is a Jean Monnet Transnational Research Project funded by the European Commission of the European Union, originally entitled "Europe and the Asia-Pacific: Models and Linkages". The book edited by Philomena Murray is the result of a multidisciplinary work that aims to research the impact of the EU experience on the East Asian Region. The project worked out by a multidisciplinary team (from Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Japan, Singapore and the United Kingdom) aimed to examine how a European model could be considered as an inspiration for East Asian countries in order to build, or at least, imagine (cf. B. Andersen) itself as a community. The most evident common feature of East Asia is heterogeneity, in the sense that there was not easy to determining common goals and shared agendas and that it could happen that the more strong States could overcome the weaker. If we cannot yet talk about 'ASEAN-ness', in contrast EU present itself as a space that share the same values, the same historical experience and above all the same democratic system, a capitalistic mode of production and the rule of law. According to a multifaceted team of researchers with a different academic background, all specialized on EU-East Asian relations, EU might represent a paradigm for East Asian Regionalism, with its supranational institutions and the pooling of sovereignty of the 27 member states, in fact EU is seen as a "putative political model" (p.6). Read all at: http://asianintegration.org/index.php?option=com_joomlib&task=view&id=18&Itemid=75 http://www.asianintegration.org/ <http://www.asianintegration.org/> is constantly looking for new book reviewers on East Asian integration books. Dr. Bernhard Seliger Resident Representative Hanns Seidel Foundation Seoul Office 501, Soo Young Bldg. 64-1 Hannam-1-Dong Yongsan-Gu Seoul Republic of Korea Tel. ++ 82 2 790 5344 Fax. ++ 82 2 790 5346 e-mail: seliger@hss.or.kr Web-Site: http://www.hss.or.kr/
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