Bulletin n. 3/2014
February 2015
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
    • Dimitri Vanoverbeke
    Exporting the Rule of Law in East Asia: Japan's Experience from the 1990s to Present
    in Revue belge de droit international , n. 2 ,  2013 ,  364-381
    Since the 1960s, Japan has become a model for East Asia because of its rapid ascend to the status of a major economic power, whils maintaining a pluralistic approach to the rule of law. The attraction for this Japanese approach with regard to the development of legal capacity among East Asia's young democracies is significant. Japan's contribution to strengthening the rule of Law in East Asia, contributes to the formation of the East Asian region and to a more prominent place of East Asia in a globalising world but also raises concerns regarding how Japan confronts the very concept of the rule of law. Developing political tensions between Japan and China in the region are, moreover, challenging the Japanese pluralistic approach to exporting the rule of law. Japanese policy towards legal capacity building in recent times has become more centralised and normative and makes one wonder whether the pluralistic and non-normative approach will be sustained in the future. In this article we will take a closer look at Japan's policy and practices of legal capacity building in the East Asian region since the 1990s.
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