JEIH Journal of European Integration History

Today, the relationship between EU and Asian countries is at a turning point. During the Cold War, there was quite a large gap in status between the EC and ASEAN. The EC was highly institutionalised and the most advanced regional organisation, while...

Japanese competition has been a prime factor in overcoming European economic fragmentation. In the course of the 1980s Japanese technology - especially in consumer electronics - as well as Japanese business practices were key incentives for the...

Negotiations on a Japan-EEC trade agreement faced a deadlock only three years after the launch of the common foreign trade policy in 1970. The European Commission adopted a step-by-step approach to change the climate. European business people were...

Reconciliation among states tends to be pragmatic, based on cost/benefit national interest calculation. But it can be reflective, involving the perpetrator’s responsibility and remorse and the victims’ forgiveness, thus enhancing their mutual...

The article concerns cooperation on individual and public health between EU and ASEAN countries. A specific approach of European countries towards the protection, improvement and control of health was analysed and the involvement of governments from...

This article explores the EU’s attempts at the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) to encourage Myanmar directly, or indirectly via the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to connect with security cooperation. It argues that both ASEAN’s...

The Dutch sale of major weapons to Taiwan in 1980 ran counter to the Netherlands’ recent recognition of the People’s Republic of China as the sole representative of China. This led to a rupture of diplomatic relations, an outcome seemingly...

The liberal order that prevailed in the West after the end of the Second World War has recently been challenged from within as much as by external forces. The liberal internationalism and liberal democratic politics that defined the idea of ‘The...

This article explores the likelihood of the ‘Doing less more efficiently’ scenario in Jean-Claude Juncker’s “White Paper on the Future of Europe” being applied for the reform of the European Union. Given the close association of this...

This article reconstructs the European Community (EC)’s - later the European Union (EU) - participation in the GATT Uruguay Round and the parallel negotiations between China and GATT/WTO members taking place in the 1980s-1990s. The two...

On 2 March 1967, the French sports newspaper L’Équipe, indicated the participation of the club of the Girondins de Bordeaux in a new European tournament called the “European Market Cup”. According to this periodical, the competition was to be...

Europe, a fallen star, is seeking regeneration. The European Union, after more than 10 years of setbacks, tries to claim the aura of a community of European values. But with the thesis of an identity between the EU and Europe the unionist elites...

Does the European Union consist of a new world power with imperial ambitions? That is what is asked before the decade of crises 2008-2018, but also later on. Was it and is still it an empire at all? This will be analysed and discussed starting with...

The present crisis of the EU must be seen as part of a general crisis of parliamentary democracy. It is a crisis resulting from an extraordinary increase in change of societies, economic conditions and cultural contexts in an age of enforced...

As Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Luxembourg over several decades, Pierre Werner shaped the future of his country and was one of the rare statesmen to play a part in the progress of European integration until the mid-1980s. He played a major...