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The book presents the contributions of an international workshop organised in November 2007 at the GSIS/SNU. Sixteen renowned authors from Europe and North-East Asia present the main lines of the European Social Integration process in the perspective which elements may be applicable to a regional integration in this part of the world. It became clear that the European Integration was first of all a political process although the economic forms seem to have been dominating. Social integration is the glue which at the end will bring and keep Europe together.

European Social Integration - A Model for East Asia?

Contents: György Széll/Werner Kamppeter/Woosik Moon: Foreword - Cae-One Kim: The SNU-KIEP EU Center - Brian McDonald: The European Union - Philippe Pochet: EU and ASEAN - What lessons from EU social policy could be learned? - Janine Goetschy: Social Europe facing globalization - Assets and challenges for the 'European Social Model' - Béla Galgoczi: Enlargement - A danger for the European Social Model or an opportunity? - Werner Kamppeter: Lessons of European integration - A historical perspective - Dirk Jarré: The social culture - Pillar and glue of the European society - György Széll: Corporate Social Responsibility in North-East Asia - convergences and divergences - Woosik Moon: Globalization and social challenges - The case of Korea - Kwang-Yeong Shin: The development of the welfare regime in South Korea - Eun-Jin Lee: Formal organization and village as two units of DPRK society building - Deshan Lin: Selection of a social policy for the Chinese central government - Conditions and limitations - Liguang Yang/György Széll: Does a progressive income tax leads China to become a Welfare State? - Liguang Yang/György Széll: Trade unions and income regulation system in China - Shujro Yazawa: Two interpretations of the Japanese information society - The Japanese information society at a crossroad - Eun-Jeung Lee: 'Confucian Culture' and Social Democracy in East Asia - Helmut Loiskandl: Supranational identity and the appresentation to fact and 'factum' of history - Wolfgang Pape: European integration and East Asia: Learning from each other towards Omnilateralism.