Japan and the Globalisation of European Integration - Hardcover

Bourke, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855218348 ISBN 13: 9781855218345

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Dynamic developments in the global political economy pose challenges to further political integration in western Europe. This book analyzes the recent evolution of relations between Japan and the European Union with particular attention to the phenomenon of foreign direct investment - the most tangible agent of globalization. The efficiency of integration as a means of organising western Europe’s relations with the world’s second economic power is assessed. In posing the question ’What does the European Union’s experience with Japan tell us about regional political integration?’ The book identifies difficulties in the series of assumptions concerning partnership, efficiency and competition, upon which the EU raison d’être is founded.

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Synopsis

Relations between the European Community and Japan have evolved in the context of tensions between regionalization and globalization. This study treats the impact of one manifestation of globalization - Japanese direct investment - on the evolution of political integration in western Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855218348
• ISBN 13: 9781855218345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236