Introducing Asia, Europe and the challenges of globalization
Document Type
Conference paper
Source Publication
Europe-Asia relations : building multilateralisms
Publication Date
1-1-2008
First Page
1
Last Page
23
Publisher
Palgrave
Abstract
The theme of this volume, contemporary Asia-Europe relations, addresses interactions between what international relations theorists call regions, delineated along geographical lines of continents. Regions are neither territories placed under the sovereignty of political institutions, nor supranational or transnational actors in the strict sense of the term. They consist of wide and complex interactions based on territorial contiguity or relative proximity, established through economic, cultural and political interdependencies, historically developed over time and geographically located across space. They can jointly be understood as patterns of territorial relations encompassing neighbouring states, and as sub-systems of international relations at the global level. Europe and Asia qualify immediately under this definition.
DOI
10.1057/9780230583467_1
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Additional Information
Paper presented at the International Conference on Europe-Asia Relations: Building Multilateralisms, May 20-21, 2005, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
ISBN of the source publication: 9780230583467
Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Blame, R., & Bridges, B. (2008). Introducing Asia, Europe and the challenges of globalization. In R. Balme & B. Bridges (Eds.), Europe-Asia relations: Building multilateralisms (pp. 1-23). Basingstoke: Palgrave. doi: 10.1057/9780230583467_1