GENERATING PUBLIC SPACE FOR OUR COMMON FUTURES

Bureau Of European Policy Advisers

Sujets

• Regional Integration Movement
• Japan (manga)
• South Korea
• China
• Far East
• Member state of the European Union
• European integration

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• Publié par: BUREAU-OF-EUROPEAN-POLICY-ADVISERS
• Nombre de lectures: 22
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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FORWARD STUDIES UNIT
MODELS OF INTEGRATION
IN ASIA AND EUROPE:
GENERATING PUBLIC SPACE
FOR OUR COMMON FUTURES
Report from the seminar jointly organised by
the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission and
the Institute for the Integrated Studies of Future Generations, Kyoto,
held from 19 to 21 October 1999 in Brussels
Wolfgang Pape
EUROPEAN COMMISSION FORWARD STUDIES UNIT
MODELS OF INTEGRATION
IN ASIA AND EUROPE:
GENERATING PUBLIC SPACE
FOR OUR COMMON FUTURES
Report from the seminar jointly organised by
the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission and
the Institute for the Integrated Studies of Future Generations, Kyoto,
held from 19 to 21 October 1999 in Brussels
Wolfgang Pape
EUROPEAN COMMISSION A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on
the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu.int).
Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication.
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001
ISBN 92-894-0466-3
© European Communities, 2001
Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.
Printed in Luxembourg
PRINTED ON WHITE CHLORINE-FREE PAPER Contents
Foreword 5
Abbreviations 7
1. Report on presentations 9
2. Keynote speech 21
East-Asian integration and the west European model —
Paper by Johan Galtung
3. Experiences of integration: private and public, diversity and unity 4
3.1. Some old and new drivers of cultural integration in Europe —
Paper by Gwyn Prins 4
3.2. Generating intellectual public space in East Asia —
Paper by Yuzo Mizoguchi7
4. From 'open regionalism' to institutional stability? 55
4.1. China's view on Asian regionalism — Paper by Song Xinning 5
4.2. The case of North-East Asia — Paper by Heiskanen Markku 71
5. Consensus-building and democratic public space 8
5.1. Globalisation, integration and marginalisation in the new
millennium — Paper by S. Mansoob Murshed1
5.2. Can a public space transcend national boundaries? — Paper by
Tatsuro Hanada 95
6. Integration processes and global governance in the new millennium 103
6.1. Positive integration ande by law and objectives in
the European Union - Paper by Magnus Ekengren 103
6.2. Opportunities and tasks for a transnational public philosophy
for the 21 st century — Paper by Naoshi Yamawaki 111
6.3. The political economy of the regional integration process:
Europe and East Asia — Paper by Young-Kwan Yoon8
7. Epilogue. 129
Why generate a transnational public space in North-East Asia now? —
Paper by Prof. Tae-Chang Kim
Programme and list of participants 135
Short biographies of authors 141
Alphabetical index7 Foreword
This book is a collection of edited papers presented at a seminar held by
the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission in cooperation with the
Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations, Kyoto, Japan, from 12 to
19 October 1999 in Brussels, under the theme 'Models of integration in Asia and
Europe: generating a global space for a common future'.
The seminar brought together high-level experts from Japan, China, Korea
and European countries (see participants list in annex) to discuss these models in
the wider context of public and private domains transcending national borders.
The participants especially perceived the need to generate 'public spheres' -
from the traditional market in the village to the world-open Internet — in order to
enhance regional or even global integration.
While differences in history and diversity in culture render direct
comparison almost impossible, both regions recognised that they can learn from
each other's institutionalisation and flexibility, respectively, in order to advance
together omnilaterally to the higher level of global governance.
While the seed for the seminar was laid about one year earlier in contacts
between Brussels and Kyoto, it proved truly prospective in view of recent new
developments towards integration in both regions. 'Core Europe' is being
discussed again as a motor of deepening integration at the western edge of the
Eurasian continent. At its eastern shores the cooperation of Korea and Japan as
well as the coordination of monetary assistance in wider East Asia take on more
concrete forms. The stalemate at multilateral level since the 'Battle of Seattle' for
the World Trade Organisation at the end of 1999 has contributed to a prolifer­
ation of bilateral free-trade negotiations from Singapore tö Japan. With East Asia
recovering from the slowdown of 1997-98, intraregional trade was again taking
up a growing share. In the EU, in the meantime, improving economic signals and
preparations for the enlargement to the East have brought models of integration
again to the fore of political debate.
Also technological advances push régionalisation, if not globalisation
altogether, as seen in proposals of unified rules by Japan for e-commerce in the
Asian region which as such are already an acquis communautaire for the EU.
Notwithstanding, leaders at the European Summit meeting in Lisbon in March
2000 were also inspired by the new opportunities of cyberspace in order to
launch new initiatives for eEurope.
Wolfgang Pape, Brussels, May 2000 Abbreviations
ADB Asian Development Bank
AMFn Monetary Fund
AMPO (Japan-US Security Agreement)
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ARF ASEAN Regional Forum
ASEAN Association of South-East Asian Nations
ASEM Asia Europe meeting
CBM confidence building measures
CERN European Organisation for Nuclear Research
(Centre européen de la recherche nucléaire)
CPC Communist Party of China
DDR German Democratic Republic
EAC East Asian Community
EAEC East-Asian Economic Caucus
EC European Communities
ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
EUn Union
FDI foreign direct investment
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
IIT intra-industry trade
IMF International Monetary Fund
KEDO Korean Peninsula Development Organisation
MAI Multilateral Agreement on Investment
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NAP national action plan
NATOh Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NGO non-governmental organisation
NIEs newly industrialised economies
ODA official development aid
OSCAP Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Asia/Pacific
OSCEn fory andn in Europe
PECC Pacific Economic Cooperation Council
PRC People's Republic of China
SAARC South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation
SEA Single European Act
SEZ special economic zones
WTO World Trade Organisation