Inter-Regional Relations and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)

Bart Gaens is Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA). He is also Specially-Appointed Associate Professor at the University of Osaka, Japan, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki. He has published on Europe-Asia relations with special focus on the ASEM process.  Gauri Khandekar is Deputy Director and Director Europe at think tank Global Relations Forum based in its office in Brussels, Belgium. Gauri is the author of five books on Asia-Europe relations.

• Chapter 1: The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM): Background, Purpose, and Functions (Bart Gaens).- Chapter 2: ASEM and the Security Agenda – Talking the Talk but Also Walking the Walk? (Axel Berkofsky).- Chapter 3: ASEM: Partnership for Greater Growth? (Gauri Khandekar).- Chapter 4: A Value-Added ASEM: The Socio-Cultural Dialogue (Huong Le Thu).- Chapter 5: ASEM and the People’s Involvement: A Focus on the Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP) (Silja Keva).- Chapter 6: ASEM and the Promotion of Connectivity between Asian and European Publics (Lai Suet-Yi).- Chapter 7: ASEM’s Process of Enlargement and its Implications (Bart Gaens).- Chapter 8: Reinventing ASEM: A Need for Relevance (Gauri Khandekar).- Chapter 9: The Value and Limitations of Comprehensive Multilateralism: An EU Perspective on the Asia-Europe Meeting (Thomas Christiansen and Shelly Tsui).- Chapter 10: ASEM: An Asian perspective (Roopmati Khandekar).