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Team of leading scholars assess the success of the EU project, with particular emphasis on Europe's interaction with Asia

Table of Contents

1. The European Union: Achievements, Ongoing Challenges
and Future Prospects
Julien Chaisse

PART I
EUROPEAN LEGAL INTEGRATION: PROCESS, DIFFICULTIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2. The Rule of Law and Integration in the EU
Ian Forrester KC
3. The European Union as an Oxymoron: From Contest via Contradiction to Constitution?
Rostam J Neuwirth
4. The Social Dimension of the EU
Manfred Weiss
5. Geographical Scope and Diversity of EU Rules on Public Procurement
Trygve Ben Holland
6. Spatial Configurations of Welfare in the EU: The Case of Cross-border Healthcare
Irene Sobrino Guijarro
7. Godot is Finally Coming? The Great Convergence of Services Markets within the EU
Panagiotis Delimatsis
8. Government, Culture and Movies: In Search of a Common Understanding from a European Perspective
Susana de la Sierra

PART II
THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A GLOBAL ACTOR: ISSUES AND PARTNERS
9. The European Union and Global Economic Governance: A Leader Without a Roadmap?
Jan Wouters and Akhil Raina
10. Lessons from European Constitutionalism for Reforming Multilevel Governance of Transnational Public Goods in Asia?
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
11. The EU’s Civil Justice Policy Field: Perspectives for Asia?
Helen E Hartnell
12. Bilateralism in an Interregional World? From EU Negotiations with MERCOSUR to a Bilateral Strategic Partnership with Brazil
Katharina L Meissner
13. Reclaiming the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership through the EU–China Partnership and Cooperation Agreement: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Chien-Huei Wu
14. Legalisation of International Economic Relations: Is Asia Unique?
Shintaro Hamanaka

PART III
EUROPEAN UNION’S TRADE POLICY: GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRADE CHALLENGES
15. Trade for All? Transparency in the EU’s Common Commercial Policy
Fernando Dias Simões
16. Investor to State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: A Comparison of Evolving Legal Approaches in Brazilian and Latin American Relations with the European Union
Daniele Bianchi and Kirstyn Inglis
17. The Rise of the RCEP: Regional Multilateralism and its Impact on the EU–China BIT
Olga Boltenko
18. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership: Intellectual Property Chapter, Research in Biotechnology and Price of Medicine with Lessons from the European Union
Sufian Jusoh
19. Geographical Indications in the EU, China and Australia: WTO Case Bottling Up Over Prosecco
Danny Friedmann
20. Indian Pharma Sector’s Journey for the Innovation Panacea: Lessons from Negotiations wiTheU and RCEP
Debashis Chakraborty and Nilanjan Banik

About the Author

Julien Chaisse is Professor of Law at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Advisory Board Member of the Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL).

Reviews

In summary, this new volume offers a rich and dense panorama of the multiple challenges that the EU confronts in its daily external action, including many that remain underexplored in the literature. One of the originalities of this anthology lies in the comparative dimension of the issues examined. Moreover, while many of the questions investigated appear at first sight to be ‘niche’ issues, the volume develops a web of interconnections that raise overarching and even paradigmatic questions … The collection’s balance coupled with the originality of the approaches adopted in many of its chapters demonstrate, overall, the volume’s strength: it brings together internal market and EU external action specialists as well as trade policy analysts to shed important new light on some of the most topical challenges faced by the EU on the global economic stage.
*European Law Review*

At present, it is impossible to investigate the law, politics and economy separately because they are so inter-entangled. This complexity is perfectly addressed the present edited volume (produced to celebrate 60 years of European integration) in which current legal issues are analysed along with legal challenges to the EU’s role as a global actor and commercial policy as its crucial policy field … Overall, having met its own aims, the volume certainly deserves attention.
*Journal of Common Market Studies*

At some 500 pages, Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts is not a brief bedtime story. Yet its page range reflects one of the book’s major strengths: its comprehensive nature, which has become so characteristic of Julien Chaisse’s work. Another of Chaisse’s fortes, to bring together a wide variety of people working on different aspects of a certain theme, is equally displayed in the book, which includes contributions from academics, legal practitioners (including arbitrators), policy advisors and consultants, and a judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union … These make Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts especially valuable reading whilst a pandemic is raging through the world, stopping nearly all, but geopolitics.
*Foreign Trade Review*

By bringing together experts on each specific topic they examined, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU integration process and power shifts over the recent trade war and developments in the world. Due to its importance and excellent discussions, Professor Chaisse’s book is going to be consulted as a reference book on EU law and EU integration.
*Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul*

This comprehensive and timely book takes the readers on an intriguing journey by successfully capturing the exciting anticipation of EU law … this book combines business relations, sustainability and future-oriented research in a comprehensive and persuasive way. For this very reason, it would not be wrong to express frankly that this book we have reviewed stands before us as a “must read” book for those who are interested in EU law and EU integration.
*Law & Justice Review*

The variety of the topics covered and the overall clarity of presentation certainly make the work worthy of attention.
*Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (Bloomsbury translation)*