Enhancing Asia-europe Co-operation Through Educational Exchange (routledge Contemporary Asia Series)

This volume brings together contributions that conceptualize and measure EU perceptions in the strategic regions around the world in the aftermath of the UK referendum. Contributors assess the evolution of EU perceptions in each location and discuss how their findings may contribute to crafting foreign policy options for the new EU-27.Brexit is very likely to have a substantial bearing on EU external policy, not merely because of the loss of a major member state with a special relationship to the US and the Commonwealth, but also because it challenges the integrational success story that the EU strives to embody. This book thus serves a dual purpose: on the one hand it broadens the recent studies on Brexit by focusing on external partners' reactions, and on the other it allows for an innovative evaluation of policy options for EU foreign policy. Based on a solid theoretical foundation and empirically rich data, it constitutes an innovative and timely addition to the evolving debate on Brexit and its consequences.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European politics, Brexit, British politics, EU politics, comparative politics and international relations. This book examines the ideas of knowledge-transfer and higher education exchange in the relationship between the European Union and countries, regions, universities and think-tanks across Asia. It critically investigates some discourses of particular relevance to the cognitive framework of the academic discipline of ‘European Studies', as currently taught across a number of countries in the Asia Pacific. For this purpose, this book presents a range of theoretical explanations, drawn from notions such as the global knowledge village, intercultural dialogue, regional integration, foreign policy analysis and international education. The author offers a unique, in-depth, investigation of a range of EU policies and agendas towards Asia, scrutinizing a number of contemporary centers, curricula and exchange initiatives in the field of European Studies in Asia, and analyzing over-arching themes, such as human rights and further sheds light on the long history of the exchange of ideas and knowledge between East and West, surveying the function of educational and intellectual exchange as a developing foreign policy tool of the European Union in Asia. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relation between Europe and Asia, within Politics, International Relations, Asia-Pacific Studies, European Studies, Education, Law and Human Rights. Dr Georg Wiessala is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK. En esta obra se plantea el tema de la transmisión de conocimientos y de la cooperación en materia de educación entre la Unión Europea y los países, regiones y universidades de Asia. Presenta críticamente algunos planteamientos de especial relevancia en el marco cognitivo de la disciplina académica sobre "Estudios Europeos", tal como se enseña actualmente en numerosos países de Asia-Pacífico. Para ello, este libro presenta una serie de explicaciones y aclaraciones teóricas, elaboradas a partir de nociones, como la de aldea global del conocimiento, diálogo intercultural, integración regional, análisis de la política exterior y de la educación internacional, etc. El autor ofrece una oportunidad única para conocer en profundidad las políticas y programas de la UE hacia Asia, examinando una serie de centros contemporáneos, así como programas e iniciativas en el campo de los estudios europeos en Asia; analiza temas globales como el de los derechos humanos, y arroja luz sobre la larga historia de intercambio de ideas y conocimientos entre Oriente y Occidente. Uno de los capítulos en los que se articula este trabajo se refiere específicamente a la educación superior como política exterior, aprendizaje, investigación e intercambio de la UE en su estrategia sobre Asia. Termina con un capítulo de conclusiones sobre la construcción de espacios intercontinentales de aprendizaje tendiendo puentes entre las mentalidades Georg Wiessala offers a critique of the ways in which intellectual and academic exchanges inform and shape external interactions with countries, institutions and non-state actors across the Asia-Pacific. Wiessala analyses ideologies, mechanisms and policies through which matters of exchange and inter-cultural dialogue have come to bear on the EU-Asia dialogue.