Research Programmes

5. "The EU and Regions"

Prof. Watanabe, Prof. Oshima, Prof. Wakamatsu

Plan of Publication EU and "Region"

In order to think of the meaning of the EU in multi-levels, we consider how each country, each region, and each minority (both ethnic and national one), along the changes of international political structure, reacts to and disputes about the EU.
It is especially necessary to link international policy with domestic policy in the EU study, which sometimes lacks in the preceding works. This work leads us to some relative unterstandings of the EU in European International Politics and International Politics in general. In this book, "region" means not only inner regions in a nation state (micro-regions), but also means sub-regions across the nation states.

Contents

Introduction: The EU and "Regions
I．Member Countries
1．France (Watanabe, TUFS)
2．England (Wakamatsu, TUFS)
3．Swiss (Niimoto, Tsuda)
4．The Northern Countries (Oshima, Tsuda)
5．Eastern Countries (Shinohara, TUFS, or Yoshioka, Tsuda)
6．Spain (Yokata, Tohoku University)
7．Italy (Yasoda)
8．Benelux (Kokubo, Shizuoka University)
II．Sub-regions and Minories
1．Sub-regions (Takahashi, Yamagata University)
2．National Minorities (Miyajima, Rikkyo University)
3．Ethnic Minorities (Kajita, Hitotsubashi University)
III．EU and the Outer Regions
1．Turkey (Kano, Tsuda)
2．Africa (Ogura, Tsuda)
IV．Conclusion

Regular Meetings

1. 1st Meeting of the EUIJ Joint Research Study Group on "EU and Regionalism"
Date: 24 February 2005, 14:00
Venue: Tsuda Umeko Hall, Tsuda College
Speakers/Themes: Prof. Syuji Kitami (Tsuda College): "The EU from the Perspective of the Left; the Case of "ATTAC"", Prof. Hirotaka Watanabe (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): "Transportation of EU and European Nation - State"
2. 2nd Meeting of the EUIJ Joint Research Study Group on "EU and Regionalism"
Date: 5 April 2005, 15:00-18:00
Venue: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Hongo-Satellite, 4th Floor, seminar room
Speakers/Themes: 横田正顕（東北大学）: 「欧州統合の中のスペイン政治－デモクラシーの形成と展開（仮題）」 / 若松邦弘（東京外国語大学）: 「民主主義の赤字と地域分権－イギリスの場合」
3. 3rd Meeting of the EUIJ Joint Research Study Group on "EU and Regionalism"
Date: 23 July 2005, 14:00-17:00
Venue: Fuchu Campus, Seminar Room No.542, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Speakers/Themes: 1. Yasuyuki KOKUBO (Professor, University of Shizuoka): "Belgium's diplomacy in the enlarged EU", 2. Hirohito YASODA (Fellow, Osaka School of International Public Policy): "A political analysis of the arguments on the DPEF"
Language: Japanese