The European Union and Japan

A New Chapter in Civilian Power Cooperation? / Edited by Paul Bacon, Hartmut Mayer and Hidetoshi Nakamura
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4724-5749-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism

The EU and Japan have one of the most important trade relationships in the world. Fittingly, this book presents a detailed analysis of their bilateral regulatory environment and negotiation processes. Moreover, the two polities have also co-operated extensively in bilateral and multilateral contexts on a range of global governance issues. Nevertheless, the relationship is widely acknowledged to have significant untapped potential. Deploying the concept of civilian power, the book takes a fresh, honest and provocative look at this important relationship, in a post-Fukushima, post-sovereign debt crisis world. First the book analyses the place of EU-Japan relations within the worldviews of the Japanese and European bodies politic. Subsequently, three thematic sections evaluate their cooperation on such issues as trade, energy security, environmental politics, development, human rights, post-conflict reconstruction, health and biosecurity. The eminent scholars of the EU-Japan relationship gathered in this book offer informed, empirically rich and policy-relevant insights into the present and future prospects for the relationship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bacon, Paul

Mayer, Hartmut

Nakamura, Hidetoshi

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; I: Japan, the EU and Civilian Power Relations; 1: Japan as a ‘Proactive Civilian Power'? Domestic Constraints and Competing Priorities; 2: The EU in a Changing Global Order; 3: The EU through the Eyes of Japan; II: Enhancing Trade Relations and Regulatory Standards; 4: Three Balancing Acts; 5: The Political and Institutional Significance of an EU–Japan Trade and Partnership Agreement; 6: Food Fights or a Recipe for Cooperation? EU–Japan Relations and the Development of Norms in Food Safety Policy 1; III: Promoting Environmental, Economic and Energy Security; 7: Environmental and Energy Policy; 8: Sympathy or Self-Interest? The Development Agendas of the European Union and Japan in the 2000s; 9: Saving the Kyoto Protocol; IV: Protecting Political, Food and Health Security; 10: EU–Japan Relations; 11: The EU, Japan and the Balkans; 12: Global Governance of Dual Use in Biomedical Research; 13: Accountability and the Governance of Food Safety Policy in the EU and Japan

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Bacon is Deputy Director of the European Union Institute in Japan at Waseda University, and an Associate Professor of International Relations at Waseda’s School of International Liberal Studies.

Hartmut Mayer has been Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics (International Relations) at St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, and a member of Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations since 1998.

Hidetoshi Nakamura is currently Associate Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, and also Deputy Director, European Union Institute in Japan at Waseda University.