Developing EU-Japan relations in a changing regional context a focus on security, law and policies PDF
Preview Developing EU-Japan relations in a changing regional context a focus on security, law and policies
Developing EU–Japan Relations in a Changing Regional Context Relations between the European Union (EU) and East Asia have consistently expanded in recent years, particularly between the EU and Japan. Against the background of negotia- tions about an economic and strategic partnership agreement, the EU–Japan relationship is set to become the single most comprehensive ‘region-to-state’ relationship the world has known today, accounting for more than a third of world gross domestic product (GDP) and a combined population of more than 600 million people. This book addresses the potential role of the EU, in cooperation with Japan, to craft a stable and prosperous mode of governance in the Asian region. In today’s globalized world, seemingly defined by waxing Chinese power and waning American power, the book reflects the lack of appreciation for an EU–Japan concert in maintaining and develop- ing multilateral principles. It aims towards fortifying this relationship by acknowledging that in order to enhance the credibility and capabilities of such an alliance, it is necessary to take stock of where the partnership stands today, what kind of obstacles still need to be overcome and which options have been left untouched. By introducing state-of-the-art empirical research in multiple fields, this book will be of key interest to students and scholars of international relations, comparative regionalism, the EU and Japanese politics. Dimitri Vanoverbeke is a Professor in Japanese Studies and Director of the Department of Area Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the Executive Director of the Double Degree EU–Japan Multidisciplinary Master’s program and is frequently a guest professor at the University of Lyon III (Jean Moulin) and at several Japanese universities. Takao Suami is Professor of Law at Waseda University Law School, Japan, and served as the President of the Japanese Association of EU Studies. He is also responsible for the Tokyo Module in the Master’s program at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Takako Ueta is Professor at the International Christian University, Japan. She has worked for the Embassy of Japan to Belgium, been a special advisor on NATO and European security, and was Ambassador, Deputy Chief of the Mission of Japan to the EU. Nicholas Peeters is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Political Science at Waseda University, Japan. Frederik Ponjaert is Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for European Studies at Université libre de Bruxelles and KU Leuven, Belgium, and Associate Lecturer in Comparative Regionalism at Sciences Po, Paris. He is also Scientific Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus GEM PhD School. Globalisation, Europe, Multilateralism Series Series Editor: Mario Telò, the Institut d’Études Européennes at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB), Belgium. Series Managed by: Frederik Ponjaert, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. This series delves into a given dynamic shaping either the global-regional nexus or the role of the EU therein. It offers original insights into globalisation and its associated governance challenges; the changing forms of multilateral cooperation and the role of transnational networks; the impact of new global powers and the corollary multipolar order; the lessons born from comparative regionalism and interregional partnerships; and the distinctive instruments the EU mobilises in its foreign policies and external relations. For more information about this series and to see a full list of titles, please visit: www.routledge.com/Globalisation-Europe-Multilateralism-series/book-series/ ASHSER1392 The European External Action Service and National Foreign Ministries Convergence or Divergence? Edited by Rosa Balfour, Caterina Carta, Kristi Raik The European Union and Japan A New Chapter in Civilian Power Cooperation? Edited by Paul Bacon, Hartmut Mayer, Hidetoshi Nakamura The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations TTIP in a Globalized World By Jean-Frédéric Morin, Tereza Novotná, Frederik Ponjaert, Mario Telò Interregionalism and the European Union A Post-Revisionist Approach to Europe’s Place in a Changing World By Mario Telò, Louise Fawcett, Frederik Ponjaert Developing EU–Japan Relations in a Changing Regional Context A Focus on Security, Law and Policies Edited by Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Takao Suami, Takako Ueta, Nicholas Peeters and Frederik Ponjaert Developing EU–Japan Relations in a Changing Regional Context A Focus on Security, Law and Policies Edited by Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Takao Suami, Takako Ueta, Nicholas Peeters and Frederik Ponjaert First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business 2018 selection and editorial matter, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Takao Suami, Takako Ueta, Nicholas Peeters and Frederik Ponjaert; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Takao Suami, Takako Ueta, Nicholas Peeters and Frederik Ponjaert to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-415-78747-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-16130-3 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK Contents Illustrations vii Contributors viii Preface xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 DIMITRI VANOVERBEKE, TAKAO SUAMI, TAKAKO UETA, NICHOLAS PEETERS AND FREDERIK PONJAERT PART I Europe and Japan in East Asia: a focus on law and security 11 1 Japan–Europe security cooperation: a view from Japan 13 TAKAKO UETA 2 Legal construction of an East Asian community: is it worth it? 34 TAMIO NAKAMURA 3 The EU’s security interests in East Asia: Japan as a strategic partner? 49 MICHAEL REITERER 4 Evolving Japanese security strategy 71 ELENA ATANASSOVA-CORNELIS 5 Building an organization for security and co-operation in Asia: the European experience and Japan’s role 86 MASAKO IKEGAMI vi Contents PART II EU–Japan cooperation in practice: explaining key issues in a dynamic relationship 101 6 Japan’s relations with the EU in a changing world 103 TAKAKO UETA 7 The weakest link: problems and possibilities of unbalanced investment relations between the EU and Japan 122 KEN-ICHI ANDO 8 Mainstreaming climate change into development cooperation: comparing European and Japanese approaches 138 HANNE KNAEPEN 9 Intellectual property rights and parallel importation in the context of the EU–Japan trade relationship 154 TAKAO SUAMI Appendix 168 Index 182 Illustrations Figures 2.1 The policy-making and monitoring process in the East Asian community 44 7.1 World inward FDI 1990–2013 123 7.2 EU FDI 1990–2013 124 7.3 Japanese FDI 1990–2013 125 7.4 Japanese FDI with the EU-27 126 Tables 7.1 Inward and outward FDI stock of the EU, Japan and the US, value (current billion US $) and share in GDP and world total (%) in 2013 125 7.2 FDI stock among the EU, Japan and the US in 2012 126 Contributors Dr. Ken-ichi Ando is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shizuoka University, Japan, where he teaches about the global economy and regional economic integra- tion. He has been conducting research on the EU’s economy, especially from the viewpoint of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises. His research publications include Japanese Multinationals in Europe: A Comparison of the Automobile and Pharmaceutical Industries (Edward Elgar, 2005); ‘Regionalisation and Regionalism in Europe from the Perspective of Multinationals’, in Tamio Nakamura (ed), East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective: Current Features and a Vision for the Future (Routledge, 2009); ‘Economic Integration from Above and Below with the Evidence of Japanese MNEs in Europe’, in M. N. Jovanović (ed), International Handbook on the Economics of Integration, Vol. III (Edward Elgar, 2011); and ‘Geographic Divergence of Host Economy and Multinational Enterprises’, The Keizai Gaku, annual report of the Economic Society, Tohoku University, 2014, Vol. 74. Dr. Elena Atanassova-Cornelis is Lecturer in East Asian Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Antwerp, and the School of Political and Social Sciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She is also a vis- iting professor at the Brussels School of International Studies of the University of Kent in the UK. Her expertise includes strategic and security relations in East Asia, including major power interactions, and the EU’s Asia policy. Articles have appeared in Pacific Focus: Inha Journal of International Studies, East Asia: An International Quarterly and Asia–Pacific Review. She is the co-editor of Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia: A Post-US Regional Order in the Making? (Palgrave, 2014). Dr. Masako Ikegami has been Professor at the Department of Value & Decision Science of the Graduate School of Decision Science & Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology since October 2013. Previously she was Director of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies and a professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. Ikegami holds a Doctor of Sociology (University of Tokyo, 1996) and PhD in Peace and Conflict Research (Uppsala University 1998). She has Contributors ix published extensively in areas ranging from defence R&D and production analysis, defence policy-making, nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament to Asian regional security, conflict prevention and confidence- building measures. In the past decade, she was invited to give lectures at emi- nent institutions in the US, Europe and Asia. She held the prestigious Abe Fellowship (2010) granted by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership for doing research on the paradox of extended nuclear deterrence in the era of global nuclear disarma- ment at the East–West Center (EWC) in Washington, D.C., Honolulu, and as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Research Institute for Peace & Security in Tokyo. In 2005, she was appointed to conduct research on the North Korean nuclear crisis as POSCO Fellow at the EWC in Honolulu. Moreover, she is a regular member of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (recipi- ent of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995) on arms control and nuclear disarma- ment, and a standing board member of the Swedish Pugwash Group chaired by Ambassador Rolf Ekéus. Dr. Hanne Knaepen is a Policy Officer at the European Centre for Development and Policy Management in Brussels on climate change issues within the Programme on Regional and Local Markets for Agriculture Development and Food Security. She holds a Master’s degree in Japanese Studies from the University of Leuven (Belgium), a Master’s degree in European Studies from the ULB, Belgium, and a doctoral degree (2013) in Global Environmental Studies from the University of Kyoto (Japan). Her doctoral research focused on the issue of integrating (‘mainstreaming’) climate change into development cooperation and looked specifically at activities of the Japan International Cooperation Agency in Vietnam. Her current research interests include European and African positions in the international climate debates as well as ‘climate-smart agriculture’ in Africa. Her work is increasingly incorporating the role of emerging economies in Africa, specifically in the areas of agri- cultural investments and trade as well as the potential of Europe–Japan joint development cooperation. Dr. Tamio Nakamura is currently a Professor of Law at the School of Law, Waseda University, and was previously Professor of European Law at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests cover the constitutional and administrative law of the EU and Great Britain, and the comparative study of regionalism. His publications include Tamio Nakamura (ed), East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective: Current Features and a Vision for the Future (Routledge Contemporary Asian Series, 2009); Tamio Nakamura (ed), The New Horizon of EU Studies: New Approaches to the Polity Sui Generis (Minerva Shobo, 2005) [in Japanese]; and Tamio Nakamura and Hajime Yamamoto (eds), Development of European ‘Constitution’ and Changes of National Constitutions (Shinzasha, 2012) [in Japanese].
The list of books you might like
