학술활동

EU and East Asian Economic Integration: Agendas and Future

Organizer: Global Europe and Yonsei-SERI EU Centre

Date: 11 October 2012, 9:00-12:00 a.m.

Venue: International Conference Room, Millennium Building 7th fl., Yonsei University, Seoul
The organizers of the international workshop particularly welcome abstracts on the following
themes:

(1) East Asian Economic Integration and EU
. The future for the Asia-Pacific economic integration and implications for the EU:
Trans-Pacific Partnership, Asia-Pacific Community or East Asian Community?

. China’s and Japan’s competitive liberalization in the region: reshaping geopolitics
through the ‘Asian Noodle-Bowl’ effect

. Lessons learnt from European integration: towards enhancing the Asia-Pacific
regional architecture’s coherence and efficacy

(2) Korea-EU FTA
. The EU-Korea FTA: a suitable model for to be replicated in FTA negotiations with
ASEAN countries?

. Lessons learned from the EU-South Korea FTA: ‘best practices’, tackling non-tariff
barriers, food security and market access in services and investment

. Prospects for ‘Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia’ (CEPEA) and the
‘East Asia Free Trade Agreement’ (EAFTA): long-term implications for the European
Union’s economic interests in the region

During the period of so-called new economic regionalism in East Asia, moves on free trade
agreements have increasingly gained momentum in the region. The global trend of forming
strategic trading blocs is accelerating, particularly in light of the stalemate in WTO efforts to set
up a global free-trade regime. East Asia constitutes one of the three centers of global economy,
accounting for 23 per cent of the world's GDP and 20 percent of global trade volume. The key
East Asian players seem to support the idea that an integrated market would offset the
economic challenges, notably those posed by the EU and NAFTA/FTAA. Two of the biggest
questions are what will be the outcome of the debate over the viability of various competing
conceptions and proposals for regional economic architecture and what will be the long-term
implications of this development for the European Union’s economic interests in East Asia.

Abstracts of up to 500 words for papers in line with the above themes should be submitted via
email before 1 October 2012 to editor@global-europe.org

Completed papers can be submitted within three months after the workshop. Presenters will be
invited to submit their papers for consideration for an edited book and/or a special issue of
‘Global Europe Foreign Affairs Review’, an international peer-reviewed academic journal.

There are no conference fees, but the participants are expected to cover their accommodation
and travel expenses in full. The organizers will provide information about suitable accommodation.