Georg Wiessala - Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-Operation Through Educational Exchange

This book examines the ideas of knowledge-transfer and Higher Education exchange in the relationship between the European Union and countries, regions, universities and think-tanks across Asia. It critically investigates some discourses of particular relevance to the cognitive framework of the academic discipline of European Studies, as currently taught across a number of countries in the Asia Pacific. For this purpose, this book presents a range of theoretical explanations, drawn from notions such as the global knowledge village, intercultural dialogue, regional integration, foreign policy analysis and international education. The author offers a unique, in-depth, investigation of a range of EU policies and agendas towards Asia, by scrutinizing a number of contemporary centres, curricula and exchange initiatives in the field of European Studies in Asia. He analyses over-arching themes such as Human Rights, and further sheds light on the long history of the exchange of ideas and knowledge between East and West, surveying the function of educational and intellectual exchange as a developing foreign policy tool of the European Union in Asia.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between Europe and Asia, within Politics, International Relations, Asia-Pacific Studies, European Studies, Education, Law and Human Rights.

Dr Georg Wiessala is Professor of International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK.

1 Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe

Shopping for allies

Czeslaw Tubilewicz

2 The AsiaEurope Meeting

The theory and practice of

interregionalism

Alfredo C. Robles, Jr

3 Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia

Edited by Anthony Reid and

Michael Gilsenan

4 AsianEuropean Relations

Building blocks for global

governance?

Edited by Jrgen Rland,

Gunter Schubert, Gnter

Schucher and Cornelia Storz

5 Taiwans Environmental Struggle

Toward a green silicon island

Jack F. Williams and Chang-yi

David Chang

6 Taiwans Relations with Mainland China

A tail wagging two dogs

Su Chi

7 The Politics of Civic Space in Asia

Building urban communities

Edited by Amrita Daniere and

Mike Douglass

8 Trade and Contemporary Society Along the Silk Road

An ethno-history of

Ladakh

Jacqueline Fewkes

9 Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis

Edited by Richard Carney

10 Kim Jong Ils Leadership of North Korea

Jae-Cheon Lim

11 Education as a Political Tool in Asia

Edited by Marie Lall and

Edward Vickers

12 Human Genetic Biobanks in Asia

Politics of trust and scientifi c

advancement

Edited by Margaret

Sleeboom-Faulkner

13 East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective

Current features and a vision for

the future

Edited by Tamio Nakamura

14 Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asias Cities

Edited by Melissa Butcher and

Selvaraj Velayutham

15 Preventing Corruption in Asia

Institutional design and policy

capacity

Edited by Ting Gong and

Stephen Ma

16 Expansion of Trade and FDI in Asia

Strategic and policy challenges

Edited by Julien Chaisse and

Philippe Gugler

17 Business Innovation in Asia

Knowledge and technology

networks from Japan

Dennis McNamara

18 Regional Minorities and Development in Asia

Edited by Huhua Cao and

Elizabeth Morrell

19 Regionalism in ChinaVietnam Relations

Institution-building in the

Greater Mekong subregion

Oliver Hensengerth

20 From Orientalism to Postcolonialism

AsiaEurope and the lineages of

difference

Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar,

Kaiwar Vasant and Thierry Labica

21 Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong

Containing contention

Stephan Ortmann

22 Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia

Considering the other through

ethnonyms, territories and

rituals

Edited by Christian Culas and

Franois Robinne

23 Asia and Latin America

Political, economic and

multilateral relations

Edited by Jrn Dosch and

Olaf Jacob

24 Japan and Africa

Globalization and foreign

aid in the 21st Century

Edited by Howard P. Lehman

25 De-Westernizing Communication Research

Altering questions and changing

frameworks

Edited by Georgette Wang

26 Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

Edited by Tai-Chee Wong and

Jonathan Rigg

27 Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

Asia in fl ight

Sheng-mei Ma

28 Alterities in Asia

Refl ections on identity and

regionalism

Edited by Leong Yew

Soft Power in JapanChina Relations:

State, sub-state and non-state

relations

Utpal Vyas

30 Enhancing AsiaEurope Co-operation through Educational Exchange

Georg Wiessala

Of Circumnavigation

I have heard of a man who left our shores and set sail

For France, then crossed the Alps to Venice, where he took ship

Past the islands of the West Sea to the Holy Land.

He was lost in the mountains, found the Great Sea Ocean

And the many Indias, one after another,

And afterwards journeyed to Tartary and Cathay,

and islands whose people were melted into strangeness.He sailed past the fringes of Paradise, and arrived

At a grey country where a man was ploughing a fi eld.

He thought he had been there before, or somewhere like it:

The smell of rainy wind, the mans bow-legged trudging

As he turned the clods hoping to scrape up a summer.

What do you call this, fellow? Ox. What is this? A plough.

Earth water sky clouds field hill house farm village church man.

They were the same words with a different heft of the tongue.

He turned to his companions. We have almost reached home.

Over that hill we may find a road to take us there.

But his friends stayed clumped together under the drizzle.

We have travelled across the world and received only

Sores, blisters, fever, wounds, chills, sunburn, hunger and thirst.

We are tired. And this may be some spell or delusion.

So the man and his friends sailed back where they had come from.

Yet I believe they might have gone a few miles further

And arrived home. For you must know that the world is round.

Matthew Francis (2008) Mandeville , London: Faber and Faber, p. 53

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