Working Group on Europe and Asia

Recent Activities

• Call for Papers - EADI / DSA Conference 2011, 19 - 22 September 2011, York
  Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty:
  New Values, Voices and Alliances for Increased Resilience
• AAS-ICAS Joint Conference, March 31 - April 3, Honululu, Hawaii

  Session 384: Rethinking Asian Capitalisms and Development Regimes (I)
  Session 427: Rethinking Asian Capitalisms and Development Regimes (II)

• Call for Papers: ‘Rethinking Asian Capitalisms and Development Regimes’, Deadline 3 August 2010 (pdf)
• Annual Report 2008
• Sessions at the 12^_th EADI General Conference, 24-28 June 2008, Geneva.
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About this Working Group

This working group is dealing with current and new development challenges in Europe and Asia proceding from three observations:

• First, the post Cold War triumph of the Anglo-American model of capitalism and globalisation has been resisted or mitigated in various ways both in Asia (new capitalist power house) and in Europe (old capitalist power house), and has not been perceived as an adequate recipe to deliver sustainable development and alleviate poverty worldwide.

• Second, the beginnings of the 21st century have shown that the predominance of economic and financial transactions across the Pacific and the Atlantic are increasingly counterbalanced, if not challenged, by rising transactions within the Eurasian continent (within Asia and Europe and also between Europe and Asia), leading to the possible emergence of new rules, norms and standards among the American, Asian and European power houses in shaping the future of global governance.

• Thirdly, the rapid rise of the Asian hybrid market economies confronts a variety of continental European capitalist regimes, which themselves used to diverge from the economic and especially social model of America. Therefore, there is a need to assess how and how far Asian and European development regimes may converge, diverge, or mitigate in transforming the capitalist paradigm.

Therefore, the scientific mission assigned to this new working group is to analyze the current and future prospects of European and Asian capitalisms into the 21st century, looking at both the development regime of each respective region and their growing interdependence, but also at possible implications on the future orientations of global development governance.

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Objectives

The working group has the following objectives:

1. to promote research networking and share of knowledge among Asian and European academics and practitioners interested in the subject,
2. to promote joint working collaborations among Asian and European expertise specialised on the subject, including the promotion of young researchers and young professionals,
3. to contribute to EADI general conference and networking, to initiate or co-sponsor interval meetings and workshops, and to contribute to various other activities of the association,
4. to encourage the diffusion and publication of Asian and European expertise on the subject, though various instruments and means.
5. and to enlarge the already existing research agenda

Membership

The study of Asian and European capitalisms being multidisciplinary by nature, participation and membership are open to academics and other professionals in disciplinary areas such as : anthropology and ethnology, economic and social history, development economics and finance, sociology of development, politics, commercial and corporate law,… Thematic specialists are also welcome from fields such as labour and social studies, business development and entrepreneurship studies, rural and urban development, governance and sustainable development, human development and inequalities, economics of transition, resolution of conflicts and security, ecology and environmental studies, exclusions and migrations.

The working group, as assigned by the EADI board's meeting of October 2006 in Brighton, is initiated by a small group of European scholars and institutions (Geneva, Hamburg, Rome, Vienna) to be enlarged rapidly to a wider core group of both European and Asian academics and their respective institutions.
In a third phase, opening for working group membership will be organised in both regions through the various networks of the core group participants, through electronic communication, and of course through first calls for meetings and workshops.

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