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Sixth Conference of the European Association for South East Asian Studies (EuroSEAS), 26-28 August 2010 at the School of Global Studies at Gothenburg University.
 

Panel: Towards an East Asian Community
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Convenor:

Paul Close, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG), Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK; Email: p.c.close@open.ac.uk

Presenters:

Keisuke Abe, Faculty of Law, Seikei University, Japan; Mohamed Aslam, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Stephen Epstein, Director, Asian Studies Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Deepak Nair, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies (ISEAS), Singapore; Ewa Oziewicz, Director of East Asian Studies Centre, University of Gdańsk, Poland;
Yoshiaki Sato, Faculty of Law, Seikei University, Japan; Benny Teh Cheng Guan, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Email addresses:

abekei@law.seikei.ac.jp; maslam@um.edu.my; stephen.epstein@vuw.ac.nz; deepak@iseas.edu.sg; ekoeo@ug.edu.pl; sato@law.seikei.ac.jp; ben@usm.my
 

This panel is about regional developments within Southeast Asia and the rest of East Asia towards an East Asian Community (EAC), as currently discussed in policy, business, academic and other circles. It is about:
• the possibility of constructing an EAC through the strengthening of such East Asian organisations as ASEAN, ASEAN Plus Three (APT) and the East Asian Summit (EAS);
• developments within Southeast and East Asian in relation to those taking place both at the regional level elsewhere in the world and at the global level;
• the economic, political and cultural dimensions entailed;
• the factors and forces that favour the formation of an EAC, and those that do not;
• both the top-down and the bottom-up process involved;
• such considerations as the legal framework, human rights issues, and the part played by popular culture.