The present edition is a special issue focusing on the relations between East Asia and the European Union.

MAIN TOPICS:

• Community-building in Europe and East Asia: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Prospects
  Willem van der Geest and Yeo Lay Hwee
• The Enlargement and Integration of the European Union and East Asia: Rationale, Vision and Development
  Mohamed Jawhar Hassan
• Macro-Regionalism and Community building in Europe and Asia: Political and Security Challenges
  Miguel Santos Neves
• Stategic Developments in East Asia and the Role of the East Asian Community
  Jusuf Wanandi
• European Top-Down Integration at the Crossroads: Lessons for Asia
  Rolf J. Langhammer and Rainer Schweickert
• People’s Participation in Community Building: Europe and East Asia
  Ion de la Riva
• The EU and East Asia: A New Partnership?
  Geoffrey Barrett

DOCUMENTS:

• Joint Co-Chairmen’s Statement of the 15th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting, Jakarta, 10 March 2005
• Strengthening Ties between Asia and the GCC
  H.E. Ong Keng Yong, Secretary-General of ASEAN
  

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The present edition is a special Japan-issue on the occasion of the “Germany in Japan Year” whereby more than 300 events have been scheduled nationwide in the fields of culture, economy, politics and science to celebrate the “Germany in Japan 2005/2006” project which runs from April 2005 through the spring of 2006.

MAIN TOPICS:

• The Characteristic of Japanese Constitution and Its Practical Use by Azhar
• Japan’s Necessary Reconciliation with History by Eric Teo Chu Cheow
• Japan’s Place in Myanmar’s Bilateral Relations by N. Ganesan
• Is Japan Leading a Common East Asian External Policy? by César de Prado Yepes
• Japan’s Peacemaking and Peace-Building in Southeast Asia by Lam Peng Er

DOCUMENTS:

• Marking sixty years since the end of the Second World War – Message from Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in the Koizumi Cabinet E-mail Magazine
• Inauguration of the Third Koizumi Cabinet – Message from Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in the Koizumi Cabinet E-mail Magazine
• General Policy Speech by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to the 163rd Session of the Diet
  

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MAIN TOPICS:

• Leadership Succession and U.S. Foreign Policy: Implications for East Asia, by Charles E. Morrison
• The Politics of Re-Orientation and Responsibility: European Union Foreign Policy and Human Rights Promotion in Asian Countries? by Georg Wiessala
• Reorganisation of the International System, by Josef Thesing
• Singapore's “Global” Cultural Policy: The Consequences of the Global City for the Arts Project in the Theatre, by Terence Chong.

DOCUMENTS:

• Revisiting the Spirit of ASEAN in Southeast Asian Classrooms: Keynote Address by Mr Ong Keng Yong, Secretary-General of ASEAN
• Leadership in ASEAN after the Tsunami: Remarks by H.E. Ong Keng Yong, Secretary-General of ASEAN

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Content:

• Idealist perspectives in the Lisbon Proceedings of the EUASEAN+3 Think Tank Dialogue: Completing the Triangle -- Prepared by Yeo Lay Hwee and Willem van der Geest
• Political Succession in Asia: Continuity or Change? -- Carolina G. Hernandez
• Political Succession in Indonesia and Southeast Asia: Cosmetic Changes, Dextrous Adjustments -- François Raillon
• The Challenges of Global Terrorism: A Joint Agenda for Asia, EU and US -- Mohamed Jawhar Hassan
• The Challenges of Global Terrorism: A U.S. Perspective -- Angel M. Rabasa
• The Rise of China and its Implications on the ASEAN-EUAmerica Triangle Relations -- You Ji
• Changing Security and Political Environments of the Korean Peninsula: Bottleneck or Opening for New Asia? -- Chung-Si Ahn

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Main topics:

• EU-ASEAN Political and Security Dialogue at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Prospects for Interregional Cooperation on International Terrorism
  Frank Umbach
• Is there a Convergence of East Asian Countries' Foreign Policies? The case towards Europe
  Cesar de Prado Yepes
• Re-Negotiating the "Contrat Social": Institution-Building, Reforms, Democracy, Development and Stability in Southeast Asia
  Eric Teo Chu Cheow
• Is there an Asianisation of Asia? The New Millennium in Asia and the Identity Debate
  Manfred Mols

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Main Topics:

• Proceedings of the 5th EU-ASEAN Think Tank Dialogue
  Prepared by Yeo Lay Hwee, Chang Li Lin and Plamen Tonchev
• Marking the Passage to Southeast Asian Economic Community in the Vastness of Globalisation
  Djisman S. Simandjuntak
• Political and Security Cooperation within ASEAN: Increased Opportunity for EU's Participation
  Carolina G. Hernandez
• The European Convention and Enlargement: Opportunities for ASEAN
  Jürgen Rüland
• EU-ASEAN Relations: A Frustrated Partnership
  Dick Gupwell

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Main topics:

• How SARS has changed Singapore in a Third Wave of Transformation
  Eric Teo Chu Cheow
• The Fight Against Terrorism in Southeast Asia after the American War in Iraq
  Noel M. Morada
• Corruption and Development Aid
  Yeo Lay Hwee
• Current Foreign Aid Policy of Korea and its Problems
  Kwon, Wul

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Main Topics:

• The Political Economy of Monetary Unification: The Case of the European Monetary Union
  Reiner Schweickert
• Monetary and Financial and Cooperation in East Asia: A Survey
  Pradumna Rana
• Prospects for Financial and Monetary Cooperation in East Asia
  Yunjong Wang
• China and Southeast Asian Regional Trade Cooperation
  Mari Pangestu

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Main topics:

• Religion and Realpolitik in Muslim Southeast Asia
  Sharon Siddique
• The Challenge of Political Islam
  Azyumardi Azra
• Striving Muslim, Out of Step
  Michael Mastura

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Main Topics :

• The Asia-Europe Foundation:
  Innovation & Challenge
  Delfin Colomé
• Asia at the Nexus:
  APEC and ASEM
  Hadi Soesastro
• The Challenges of Globalisation:
  An Agenda for East Asia & The European Union
  Jean-Pierre Lehmann
• China’s Perspective on Asia-Europe Relations:
  Future Directions and Common Goals
  Yang Chengxu

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• The Internet and Democracy
  Alan C. Robles
• IT Literacy for the Information Age –What does it spell for democracy and empowerment in the years ahead?
  Janet Pearce Stenzel
• ICT and Human Resources Intermediation
  Federico M. Macaranas and Ellen C. Esguerra
• Mapping the ICT Policy Terrain: the Knowledge-Values Conundrum
  Wilson Wong

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• Japan’s Official Development Assistance:
  Issues and Challenges in Asia
  Mamoru Tsuda
and Reylito A. H. Elbo
• Japanese ODA for Human Development:
  Views from the Philippines
  Gwendolyn R. Tecson
• Foreign Assistance to Cambodia’s Rehabilitation
  Sisowath D. Chanto and Richard Ear
• Changing Modalities in International Trade
  Linda Low
• ASEAN and EU Economic Integration
  Willem van der Geest
• Nationalism and Globalisation: East and West
  ASEAN Beyond the Regional Crisis
  Verna Dinah Q. Viajar

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 Main Topics :

• Democratic Control of Armed Forces:
  Lessons to be Learned from East Asia?
  Fidel Valdez Ramos
• Relations of the US and the EU with East Asia:
  A Fresh Look at Actors, Strategic Interests and Institution-Building
  Jörn Dosch
• Democratisation for Conflict Prevention in ASEAN 10
  Mely C. Anthony
• Sovereignty Under Fire:
  Small Arms Smuggling in Southeast Asia
  David Capie
• The Rise of Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia:
  An Emerging Security Challenge
  Andrew T. H. Tan
• ASEAN Enlargement: Impacts and Implications
  Ruth Lusterio-Rico

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• How Long Will the Korean Honeymoon Last?
  Scott Snyder
• Potential Reduction Measures in Cross-Strait Conflict
  Ralph A. Cossa
• The Disputed Islands in Japanese-Russian Relations
  Masashi Nishihara
• When Borders Become Walls in Thai-Myanmar Relations
  Verna Dinah Q. Viajar
• The United States Military Presence in East Asia
  David Dickens

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  Main Topics

• State-Media Relationship in Vietnam:
  More of the Same or Finding a New Dynamic
  Russell Hiang-Khng Heng
• The Uneasy and Costly Road to Peace in Mindanao
  Raymund Jose G. Quilop
• Ethnic Tensions in Burma
  Aung Htoo
• Cambodia: A Struggle for Survival and Ethnic Issues
  Lao Mong Hay


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Main topics

• East Timor: Status Quo Ante Bellum
  Anthony Smith
• Abdurrahman’s Indonesia
  Jose Manuel Tesoro
• Foreign Policy and Domestic Crisis in Malaysia
  Joseph Liow Chin Yong
• EU-ASEAN Relations: A Burma/Myanmar Perspective
  Harn Yawnghwe

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  Main topics

• Globalisation, Democracy and the Social Market Economy
  Josef Thesing
• Southeast Asian Think Tanks in Regional and Global Networking
  Helen Nesadurai
and Diane Stone
• Think Tanks in ASEAN-EU Relations: European Perspective
  Bernhard May
• The Regional Power Balance and Potential Hotspots
  Frank Umbach
• Challenges Facing ASEAN in A More Complex Age
  John Funston

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• ASEM: Beyond Economics
  Yeo Lay Hwee
• EU-ASEAN Relations: The Question of Myanmar
  Simon Tay and Goh Chien Yen
• Grassroots Democracy in Cambodia
  Kao Kim Hourn

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Main Topics

• The Social Impact of the Asian Crisis:
  The Philippine Experience
  Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
• Globalisation, Crisis, and Change: Nations and International Society in the Asia-Pacific
  Simon S.C. Tay
• Can Indonesia Bounce Back?
  Hadi Soesastro
• Indonesia and the Military at the Crossroads
  Rowena G. Layador


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Main Topics

• Dignified Life in Europe in the 21st Century
  Günter Rinsche
• The Euro - Long Road from Dream to Reality
  Henry Schumacher
• Steps towards Economic Integration: The ASEAN Free Trade Area
  Mohd Haflah and Tiang Chye Tan
• The Kalayaan Islands (Spratlys) in Philippine Foreign Policy
  Aileen San Pablo-Baviera
• Contending Claims over the Spratlys: The Chinese Position
  Benito Lim

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Main Topics

• Political Issues in EU-ASEAN Relations
  Paul Lim
• The European Union in Southeast Asia: Trends, Shifts, and Issues
  Gina Pattugalan

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