https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Impossible-Asian-Union https://booksandideas.net/The-Impossible-Asian-Union 2011-12-20T07:56:00Z text/html en Bernard Thomann International Japan China history Asian community Asia Institut français Text Interviews South Korea <p>François Godement reminds us that the process of economic and cultural integration that is currently taking place in Asia is undermined by the heavy militarization of the countries in that region, by their competing visions of history and by diverse political factors of instability.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Will-the-Wedding-of-Australia-and https://booksandideas.net/Will-the-Wedding-of-Australia-and 2010-12-22T08:36:44Z text/html en Fabrice Argounes International diplomacy Australia Asian community Asia <p>Where will the borders of the East Asian community end up? Australia is trying to attach itself to this evolving project but, in the eyes of its Asian partners, its western inheritance keeps it on the fringes rather than at the core of the project.</p>