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EU enlargement and its implications for EU-Asia relations

EU enlargement and its implications for EU-Asia relations Asia Europe Journal (2003) 1: 13–16 ASIA EUROPE JOURNAL Springer-Verlag 2003 EU enlargement and its implications for EU-Asia relations Jan Kavan President of the UN General Assembly I would like to ponder the processes which carry fundamental significance for all states without exception, but which particularly acutely affect states of our own status and size. I am thinking of the integration processes and their consequences for the harmonization and interconnection of the major world regions. As late as the last century, Europe frequently shaped relations between states not only within its own confines, but also outside of them on the basis of balanced power at the price of conflict or peace secured at the price of hegemony. After two exhausting world wars, which started in Europe and caused immense damage and immeasurable suffering for tens of millions of people, Europe realized that interstate relations can be well arranged within the realm of cooperation, derived from interdependence, rather than based on interstate rivalry propelled by the desire for preponderance. The idea and political experience of European unification, called the ‘integration process’ in Europe, has brought fundamental change to developments on the European continent and has become a determining development factor. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Europe Journal Springer Journals

EU enlargement and its implications for EU-Asia relations

Kavan, Jan
Asia Europe Journal , Volume 1 (1) – Feb 1, 2003
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2003 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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Social Sciences; Social Sciences, general; International Economics
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1610-2932
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10.1007/s103080200006
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Asia Europe Journal (2003) 1: 13–16 ASIA EUROPE JOURNAL Springer-Verlag 2003 EU enlargement and its implications for EU-Asia relations Jan Kavan President of the UN General Assembly I would like to ponder the processes which carry fundamental significance for all states without exception, but which particularly acutely affect states of our own status and size. I am thinking of the integration processes and their consequences for the harmonization and interconnection of the major world regions. As late as the last century, Europe frequently shaped relations between states not only within its own confines, but also outside of them on the basis of balanced power at the price of conflict or peace secured at the price of hegemony. After two exhausting world wars, which started in Europe and caused immense damage and immeasurable suffering for tens of millions of people, Europe realized that interstate relations can be well arranged within the realm of cooperation, derived from interdependence, rather than based on interstate rivalry propelled by the desire for preponderance. The idea and political experience of European unification, called the ‘integration process’ in Europe, has brought fundamental change to developments on the European continent and has become a determining development factor.

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Published: Feb 1, 2003

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