The Palgrave Handbook of EU-Asia Relations

This edited book fills a gap in the literature on EU-Asia relations. The European Union and Asia are two regions undergoing significant changes internally while at the same time developing stronger relations with each other. In the context of an emerging multi-polar world, Europe and Asia are seen
as major actors, making their relations increasingly crucial for the understanding of global politics. The Handbook is distinctive because it constitute a thoroughly comprehensive collection of more than 40 contributions from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, bringing together leading authors in their respective fields. Contributors come from Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, thereby providing a genuinely global perspective on this important topic.

The Handbook is structured along several key dimensions in the relationship, ensuring that bilateral relations, multilateral contexts, institutional aspects, the comparative dimension and the global perspective, are all covered – a unique set of contributions. In addition, sections look specifically at political, economic and cultural relations between the two regions.

Thomas Christiansen is a Jean Monnet Professor of European Institutional Politics and
Director of Studies for the Research Masters in European Studies, Maastricht University, Germany. He is Executive Editor
of the Journal of European Integration, co-editor of the 'Europe in Change' series at
Manchester University Press and member of the steering committee of the Standing
Group of the European Union of the European Consortium of Political Research.

Emil Kirchner is a Jean Monnet as personam professor, University of Essex, UK. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Germany in 2002, and was elected an Academician of the Social
Sciences by the Academy of Social Science in 2009. He was Executive Editor of the
Journal of European Integration 1997-2006, and since then an Associate Editor of that
Journal. He is a member of the editorial boards of European Security, Studia
7 Diplomatica, and Perspectives in European Politics and Society.

Philomena Murray is an associate professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences.
From 2000 to 2009, she was Director of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, Jean
Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of Melbourne, Australia. She holds Australia's only
Personal Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and was selected as a Jean Monnet Success
Story in 2008. She has worked as a diplomat in Dublin and Paris.