Where is the East Asian Community going?
Author: Kyung-Tae Lee, KITA In 2000, the East Asian Vision Group (EAVG) recommended to both the leaders of the 10 ASEAN member states, and the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea that an East...
View ArticleJapan and the East Asian Community – Weekly editorial
Author: Peter Drysdale This week Kyung-tae Lee urges that regional leaders stop the talking and get on with establishing an East Asian Community (EAC). While doing so might be a little more complicated...
View ArticleRegionalism in Asia: Why we should stick with existing structures
Author: Ezra Vogel, Harvard University The past half century has been a period of largely fruitful regional cooperation in the East Asia region. Some believe that a new grouping of states would further...
View ArticleBuilding an East Asian Community
Author: Rajiv Sikri, ISAS We now find ourselves in a transitional period of strategic uncertainty. As the fulcrum of global politics and economics leans towards Asia, a shift in the balance of power is...
View ArticleBuilding fraternity amongst East Asian states
Author: Tommy Koh, University of Singapore In his address in Singapore on November 15 last year, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama explained that his vision of an East Asian Community was inspired...
View ArticleBuilding an East Asian Community
Author: T J Pempel, Berkeley East Asia encompasses vastly different political and economic systems. Religious and cultural cleavages are often deep and divisive, unresolved territorial conflicts are...
View ArticleJapan-Korea FTA cornerstone of the East Asian Community
Author: Yoichi Funabashi Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has recently told Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada that there are three key policy issues in the area of diplomacy that he intends to...
View ArticleASEAN and American engagement in East Asia
Author: Donald Emmerson, Stanford University Former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson entitled his 1969 memoir Present at the Creation — the creation of a global order from the rubble of World War II....
View ArticleWhither the Asia-Pacific Community?
Author: Daryl Morini, University of Queensland Within Australia, Prime Minister Rudd’s call for an Asia-Pacific Community (APC) has recently been muted by a number of setbacks. Indonesia and Singapore...
View ArticleAn East Asian Community and Japan-China relations
Author: Yoshihide Soeya, Keio University Since the end of the Cold War, the most important strategic relationship in East Asia has been and will continue to be the one between the United States and...
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