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César de Prado

Global Multi-level Governance: European and East Asian Leadership

Global Multi-level Governance: European and East Asian Leadership

Global Multi-level Governance: European and East Asian Leadership
César de Prado

ISBN 92-808-1139-8
ISBN 13: 978-92-808-1139-1
260 pages; paper; US$34.00
May 2007

Contents overview

Sample Chapter (2.7 MB PDF)

Since the end of the Cold War, European and East Asian states have enhanced a series of distinct regional and trans-boundary structures and agreements. The European Union has grown into a remarkable model of peaceful supranational cooperation, and countries in Southeast and Northeast Asia are gradually developing the ASEAN+3 process into an East Asian community. Through bilateral, multilateral and especially interregional relationships, both Europe and East Asia are now actively engaging with other regions and the global community.

This book examines the opportunity to sustain peace and prosperity through dynamic, multi-level governance in which individual states better engage in global processes and institutions via broad and hyperlinked regional regimes.

De Prado presents four case studies of political, advisory, economic and social multi-level governance centred in Europe and East Asia. These cases examine government actors advancing traditional agendas through formal regional institutions and flexible intergovernmental processes; Track-2 processes that link governments with economic and civil society actors; dynamic economic cooperation through the information and telecommunications sectors; and broader social advancement through regionally and globally educated human resources.

The author concludes that the convergence of European and East Asian political, economic and social agendas could spur the United States and other powers and regions to better engage in global multi-level governance, and reinvigorate multilateral organisations such as the United Nations through effective engagement with these dynamic regional and interregional regimes.

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"The author presents to us an excellent contribution to our understanding of the complex development towards global multi-level governance. His very well researched case studies focus on the regional integration in the European Union and in South-East/East Asia, the interlinkages between them and their potential to effect global change. Particularly interesting, because much less studied until now, are the chapter on the "advisory factors" that are stimulating and facilitating the regionalisation process as well as the chapter on the efforts in both regions to promote a more knowledgeable civil society through changes in higher education systems. The book ends with a visionary outlook on further developments towards a better, knowledge-based multi-level world. Indeed very impressive."
—Horst Günter Krenzler, Professor at Munich University Law Institute and former Director General for External Relations at the European Commission

"Dr César de Prado has written an impressive book on the growing engagement between Asia and Europe. He argues convincingly that this could motivate the US, the indispensable superpower, and other stakeholders in the international system, to join hands in offering our diminished multilateral institutions a much needed injection of dynamism, leadership and new directions."
—Tommy Koh
Founding Executive Director, ASEF; Chairman, Institute of Policy Studies

"A carefully researched analysis of East Asian and European regionalism, their driving forces and the interaction between the regions. The study is remarkable both for its theoretical quality and its novel empirical data. A most valuable source for students of regionalism."
—Karl Kaiser
Visiting Professor, Harvard University; Former Director, German Council on Foreign Relations

"A rich and interesting book, crammed with an astonishing range of detail about networked governance from Europe to Asia. His theoretical framework encompasses actors from international organizations to corporations, universities to think tanks, offering a way to map the new world order."
—Anne-Marie Slaughter
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

"This timely book provides a highly comprehensive and illuminating exposition of the new fluidity of global and regional multilateral governance. César de Prado did an excellent of job in providing a valuable analytical framework and persuasive cases for students of international relations and the new global order."
—Il Sa-Kong
Chairman and CEO of the Institute for Global Economics and Chair of the ASEM Vision Group, 1998-2000

"The demise of multilateralism has been announced prematurely. Cesar de Prado demonstrates how increased regionalism in Europe and in Asia has assured its remarkable comeback. His book shows convincingly how this came about and why."
—Albrecht Rothacher
Editor in Chief, Asia-Europe Journal

"This interesting book makes a strong case for the emergence of a multi-level global governance system that knits together regionally-based governments and non-governmental actors with specific reference to Europe's and Asia's knowledge systems. Interested readers will learn from de Prado's analytical framework and some well-researched case material."
—Peter J. Katzenstein
Walter S. Carpenter Professor, Jr. of International Studies, Cornell University

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Author

César de Prado is a Researcher at the University of Tokyo and a visiting professor at the University of Salamanca. He also serves as an advisor to the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process. He has been a researcher at Lund University (Sweden) and at the United Nations University Comparative Regional Integration Studies programme (UNU-CRIS) in Belgium, and has taught Asian modules at the College of Europe in Bruges. He has a Ph.D. in Global Political Economy from the European University Institute in Florence

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