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The Asia-Europe meeting: contributing to a new global governance architecture -- ASEM 8 summit texts -- The negotiation history -- ASEM 8: the narrative -- ASEM working methods reform: an identity issue -- Perception and ASEM visibility in the European media -- IMF: the road from rescue to reform -- In search of a new global financial architecture: China, the G20 and ASEM -- Banking regulations at a Crossroads -- Asia and Europe: meeting future energy security challenges -- Enhancing maritime security governance: European and Asian naval missions against Somali Piracy -- Bridging Asia and Europe? Australia and New Zealand membership in ASEM -- ASEM's future enlargement: the way forward.

The Asia-Europe meeting: contributing to a new global governance architecture -- ASEM 8 summit texts -- The negotiation history -- ASEM 8: the narrative -- ASEM working methods reform: an identity issue -- Perception and ASEM visibility in the European media -- IMF: the road from rescue to reform -- In search of a new global financial architecture: China, the G20 and ASEM -- Banking regulations at a Crossroads -- Asia and Europe: meeting future energy security challenges -- Enhancing maritime security governance: European and Asian naval missions against Somali Piracy -- Bridging Asia and Europe? Australia and New Zealand membership in ASEM -- ASEM's future enlargement: the way forward

Towards a common vision for Asia and Europe, fostering political dialogue, reinforcing economic cooperation and assistance in other areas, and other issues. Another version printed in: ASEAN Econ Bul 13:129-34 Jl 1996.

Contributing to the wider field of studies of international communication strategies by major international fora, this study investigates a scholarly vacuum – the role of visibility in the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). A novelty of this inquiry is that it is carried out on endogenous (i.e. deriving internally in ASEM) and exogenous (i.e. originating externally to ASEM) levels. Addressing the former perspective, this paper examines ASEM's official discourse and its vision of the role of visibility. Addressing the latter, exogenous perspective, the paper explores a rarely addressed dimension in ASEM studies, namely personal perceptions of the forum among Asian national elites (the opinions expressed by representatives of political, business, media and civil society circles in Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand). The main rationale is to assess whether the degree of ASEM's visibility positively correlates to the direct involvement of the stakeholders into or to the achievement of the process. Positing its inquiry within a social constructivist perspective, this article argues that, instead of being conceptualised as the end-goal, visibility should be understood as an element in the construction of the Asia-Europe relations under the ASEM framework.

Le 1er mars 1996, le Sommet de Bangkok lance le processus du Dialogue Asie-Europe (Asia Europe Meeting, ASEM) issu à la fois du rapprochement de longue durée de la Communauté européenne avec l'Asie du Sud-Est dans les années 1970 et de la conjoncture de la fin de la Guerre froide. Il permet à certains dirigeants asiatiques d'affirmer une identité asiatique fondée sur des normes politiques, économiques et sociales endogènes et aux dirigeants européens de répondre aux accusations de protectionnisme portées contre la « Forteresse Europe ». Ni organisation internationale, ni structure-cadre de négociation, l'ASEM revendique un caractère sui generis qui n'est pas sans rappeler la novation qu'avait constitué en son temps le format de la CSCE. L'enjeu est ici de conjuguer l'approche de l'« ASEAN Way » en matière de négociation avec les « valeurs et coutumes européennes ».

The ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) took place in Bangkok on 1 and 2 March 1996. It was billed as the first time representatives of East Asia and the European Union (EU) had met together on an equal footing. The authors discuss the ASEM and show that the distinctions between 'Asian' and 'Western' ways of doing things may not be as great as is sometimes asserted. The authors also suggest a series of issues that will condition the prospects of future cooperation between the two groupings. (DÜI-Sen)