Globalization and Regional Integration in Europe and Asia

Nam-Kook Kim is a Senior Fellow at SNU-KIEP EU Center and Research Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, Korea.

This volume discusses the current trend of globalization and the main characteristics of world order, focusing specifically on the destiny of the nation state, the threat against human rights, and conflicts between unilateral hegemony of the USA and Europe. Comparative in nature, it offers meaningful lessons for the future of nation states and the possibility of building regional communities in Asia.

Introduction A Framework for Peace in the Era of Globalization, Nam-Kook Kim; Part 1 Globalization and the New World Order; Chapter 1 American Primacy and Europeanist Responses, Gowan Peter; Chapter 2 European Integration and the Future of the Nation State, Jaime Pastor; Chapter 3 1This chapter is a revised version of "Bilateral and Multilateral Economic Agreements and their Impact on Human Rights of the Beneficiaries", a working paper submitted to the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in 2006., Chinsung Chung; Part 2 European Experience and Asian Reality; Chapter 4 The European Experience: The Millionfold Trauma of the Twentieth Century is Still Virulent, Holger Heide; Chapter 5 1An earlier version of this chapter appeared in Asia Europe Journal (2008) and is reused here with kind permission of Springer Science+Business Media. My thanks should go to Lay Hwee Yeo, Philomena Murray, Martin Holland, Eiji Ogawa, and Chayodom Sabhasri for their insightful lectures and conversation at the 2008 Seoul Bangkok Summer School, where I learned a great deal for this chapter., Nam-Kook Kim; Chapter 6 1Research was initially supported by the Korea Research Fund (KRF-2003-072-BS2022)., Woosik Moon; Part 3 Imagining an Asian Regional Community; Chapter 7 1An earlier version of this chapter was presented at the "War and Peace in the Era of Globalization: Experiences from Europe and Asia" conference on Jeju Island, June 2007. I am grateful to Nam-Kook Kim for inviting me to submit this chapter and giving me advice on it, and to Sam-Sung Lee for helpful comments on it. The research for this chapter was Part Ially supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No.20730107 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan., Motohide Saji; Chapter 8 1The author acknowledges the Korea Foundation for its generous support of this research project. The author also extends thanks to Choo Jaewoo, Fang Xiuyu, Guo Dingping, Kim Changsu, Kim Nam-kook, Lee Yong-joon, and Park Yong-Ok for their academic comments., Yongtao Liu; Chapter 9 Beyond the East Asian Grand Division: Imagining an East Asian Peace Belt of Jeju-Okinawa-Taiwan Islands, Samsung Lee;