Europe and Asia

Is the EU able and prepared to deal with emerging Asia? Is an increasingly affluent Asia willing to engage with economically challenged Europe?

This engaging volume presents the latest empirically informed comparative insight into how key Asian players imagine and perceive the EU before and after the Lisbon Treaty – as well before and after the outbreak of the Euro debt crisis. The result is a comprehensive overview of how these two continents engage and interact.

Natalia Chaban is Associate Professor, a Jean Monnet Chair in European Identity and Culture and Head of European and European Union Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Martin Holland is a Jean Monnet Chair and Director of both the National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury and of European Union Centres Network, New Zealand.

Introduction: Early-Career Academics' Perspectives on Asian Perceptions of the EU, Natalia CHABAN and Martin HOLLAND

Section I: Normative, Economic and Political Visions of the EU Before the Eurozone Souvereign Debt Crisis

Chapter 1: The European Union, Human Rights and Burma/Myanmar: Stakeholders’ Perceptions in Southeast Asia, Clara PORTELA

Chapter 2: Chinese Perceptions: An Exploration into the Non-material Underpinning of Sino-EU Trade Relations, Pim VAN LOON

Chapter 3: What Shapes Perceptions of the EU in China? Discrepancies Between Media Representation and Public Perception, LI Zhang

Chapter 4: Political Visions and Stakeholders' Perception: Ideals, Truths and Challenges of the ASEM Process, Alessandra BROVELLI

Chapter 5: It Takes Two to Tango: Who Dances on the ASEM Stage?, LAI Suet-yi

Chapter 6: Perceptions and Misperceptions: Images of the European Union in India, Rajendra K. JAIN and Shreya PANDEY

Section II: Asia’s Perceptions of the EU after the Outbreak of the Eurozone Souvereign Debt Crisis

Chapter 7: Challenging the EU’s Economic Roles? The Impact of the Euro zone Crisis on EU Images in China, LAI Suet-yi and LI Zhang

Chapter 8: Is FTA for ‘Up Closer and Personal?’ Reflections on Media and Public Views on the EU in Korea, Sung-Won YOON

Chapter 9: Potential Still Untapped: Japanese Perceptions of the European Union as an Economic and Normative Power, Paul BACON

Chapter 10: Indian Elites and the EU as a Normative Power, Rajendra K. JAIN and Shreya PANDEY

Chapter 11: Who Acts for the EU before and after the Lisbon Treaty? The View Through the Media in Singapore and Thailand, Loke Hoe Yeong and YEO Lay Hwee

Section III: Asia in the Eyes of Europe – Before and After the Crisis

Chapter 12: Asia Through the Eyes of Spain: Spanish Youth Perceptions on Asia-Pacific, María CUIÑAS INSUA

Chapter 13: European Perceptions of Asian Regionalism: The Role of Multilateralism in Europe’s Image of Asia, Sebastian BERSICK

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