Bulletin n. 2/2008
September 2008
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Faure Guy
    La Banque asiatique de développement et les jeux d'influence chinois et japonais
    in Transcontinentales , n. 6, juillet ,  2008 ,  107-124
    The Asian Development Bank provides an overview of the new developments on China’s “selfinterested multilateralism”. It also allows us to verify certain assumptions about the future of Sino- Japanese relations, often reduced to a presupposed inevitable conflict of interests that would lead to a struggle between two Asian powers for regional hegemony. Since joining ADB in 1986, China has come a long way within this institution. In the case of the Greater Mekong Subregion development, a flagship programme of the bank, Chinese and Japanese visions differ. Will they contradict each other or converge? Finally, the diplomatic “styles” of China and Japan are poles apart. Will they come together in a common approach to a more efficient and more consensual “soft diplomacy”?
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