Is the EU able and prepared to deal with emerging Asia? Is an increasingly affluent Asia willing to engage with economically challenged Europe? This engaging volume presents the latest empirically informed comparative insight into how key Asian players imagine and perceive the EU before and after the Lisbon Treaty – as well before and after the outbreak of the Euro debt crisis. The result is a comprehensive overview of how these two continents engage and interact.

Ist die EU in der Lage und bereit, mit den aufstrebenden Volkswirtschaften Asiens umzugehen? Ist das zunehmend wohlhabende Asien bereit, sich in Europa wirtschaftlich zu engagieren?

Is the EU able and prepared to deal with emerging Asia? Is an increasingly affluent Asia willing to engage with economically challenged Europe? This engaging volume presents the latest empirically informed comparative insight into how key Asian players imagine and perceive the EU before and after the Lisbon Treaty – as well before and after the outbreak of the Euro debt crisis. The result is a comprehensive overview of how these two continents engage and interact.

The fallout of the global economic crisis has impacted the world in a profound way. While Europe struggles through a protracted crisis, Asia continues to emerge as a major economic and political power. Given the rising importance of co-operation between Asia and Europe in this uncertain era, there is a strong impetus to understand how Asia is seen from Europe and to study Europeans' perceptions of Asia. This book comprises the findings of an interregional research project which set out to gauge the European public and media perceptions of Asia. The study of perception is becoming an influential research field given its multi-disciplinary and unique approach in providing a deeper understanding of others and their expectations. Understanding perceptions can provide improved communications and guidance for informed policy adjustments. Carried out in a sample of eight EU Member States - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, and the UK - throughout 2010 and 2011, the study aims to help guide Asian and European policy makers to improve mutual co-operation. Asia in the Eyes of Europe provides analysis of the core research findings and includes detailed daily analysis of 29 media outlets across Europe, a public opinion survey of over 6,000 respondents, and face-to-face interviews of over 100 top European media professionals. Rigorously researched and analyzed, the book offers an insight into the issues and images of a 'Rising Asia' that resonate most among Europeans. (Series: DGAP-Writings on International Politics / DGAP-Schriften zur Internationalen Politik)

This book examines the perception of European Union’s identity by the main actors in international relations. Analysing issues related to public discourse in third countries as demonstrated by, amongst others, their political elites, civil society, and think-tanks, the book highlights a ‘normative gap’ with regards to the European Union's self-definition/perception and its perception in the international environment. It also shows that the European Union’s perception of normative power in international relations is not shared consistently by the main principal actor yet is differentiated relative to geographical area and scope of activities undertaken by the EU. It demonstrates that the perception of the EU’s normative identity is a source of the crisis of the European Union as an effective and significant player in the international arena. This book will be of key interest to scholar and students of European Union politics, European politics/studies, European integration, identity politics, and international relations.

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 provides perspectives on the relevance of European Studies as a disciplinary category for the Asian region. That being the primary focus, the book serves a larger purpose. First, it provides insights on European society, polity and economy (including European Integration) as they are accounted in European Studies. The epistemological character of the knowledge thus conveyed has larger credibility and reliability such that they can become policy inputs and imaginations for strengthening Asian-European relationship. This approach helps overcome the trap of subjectively motivated discourses on Europe which may fail potential collaborations between the regions. Second, the design and discursivity of European Studies will be an instruction to the Asian region on the constitutive potential of regional studies in society-building. Third, the book works towards building the idea of “Europe” in terms of international law, in the minds of Asian students, researchers and decision-makers. This is extremely relevant for the future relationship and cultural engagement between the two regions. The book is of interest to policymakers, academics, embassies, state-level government offices, researchers and students.