"The Japanese process of cooperation and competition in Asian regionalization: A way to follow in implementation of regional integration ?"[Special Seminar] (2009/7/23)
Date:July 23 (Thurs.), 2009 15:00 - 17:00
Venue:CIAS Seminar Room (Room 203 on the 2nd floor of Inamori Hall)
Speaker: Dr. Anne Androuais (CNRS/University Paris Ouest Nanterre La
Defense)
Topic:"The Japanese process of cooperation and competition in Asian
regionalization: A way to follow in implementation of regional integration ?"
Dr. Anne Androuais will be leaving in early August, and will visit
again as a fellow from late September for about five months. Related to
her presentation and academic interests, she intends to organize a
series of seminar regarding regional integration in various regions in
the world while she will join us again since September.
Your kind participation to the seminar would be most welcome.
Summary of presentation:
In order to explain the concept of cooperation and competition in Asian
regionalization, it is interesting to see how Japanese Economic
Cooperation system has accompanied trade and companies, and how Japanese
foreign direct investments have boosted out their production to become
more competitive on the Asian market and at the same time companies have
launched sophisticated products on their local market in Japan.
With the establishment of the trans-boundaries experiences at the end of
the nineties’ in various areas of Asian countries, like Singapore, Johor
and Riau, with a great number of Japanese companies, regionalization
became less an “open regionalization” and more an actual regional
integration. And then, with the FTA (Free Trade Agreements) the march
towards an effective regional integration was considered.
However, the Japanese long length system of cooperation and competition
in Asia will change due to diverse conditions such as the progress of
the ASEAN plus three (APT), the likely buildup of regional institutions,
and the consideration for the region to become not only an economic
integrated area but to take into account political, cultural and
environmental situations; environment is considered to be a common
denominator for present and future regional actions.