The 3-year project, "Multi-dimensional Research on Europe's Orders and Systems" consists of three distinct periods. The first and second year focused on investigating Europe's orders and systems respectively while the third year examined enlarging an...
The 3-year project, "Multi-dimensional Research on Europe's Orders and Systems" consists of three distinct periods. The first and second year focused on investigating Europe's orders and systems respectively while the third year examined enlarging and deepening European Union as well as its external relations with other regions.
The first year's research was conducted under the theme of "Changes and Continuances of Europe's Orders". Its topics include as follows: Europe's Identity with a special emphasis on Europe's Internal Causes and Social Constructivism, Fundamental Forces and Thoughts in Europe's Orders, Historical Formations and Changes in Europe's Orders, Europe's Political Orders with a special emphasis on Formations and Structures of "Politics of Inclusion", Changes in Europe' Security Orders : Transition from the Westphalia System to the Post-Westphalia System, Structural Continuances and Changes in Europe's Economic Orders: Modern World System Approach, Changes and Continuances in Europe's Social Orders, and Europe's Cultural Orders.
The second year's research was conducted under the theme of "Multi-dimensional Investigation into the Structure and the Evolutionary Process of European Systems." Its includes include as follows: History and Characteristics of European Systems, Theoretical Research on European Union as a System, European Union as a Multi-governance, Changes in Relations between European Union and Nation States with a special emphasis on Mixed Causes and Causes of Conflicts and Cooperation, European Union System and Civil Society with a special emphasis on Causes of Relations, Policy Decision Processes in Multi-governance with a special emphasis on European Union's Regional Policies, Growing Integration and Strengthening Institutional Unity in Europe, Investigation into Europe Unions' Enlargement and Its Implications, and Multi-dimensional Evaluations of the European Systems.
The third year's research was conducted under the theme of "Europe and International System - Experiences and Lessons". Its composed of 10 theses divided into three distinct parts - Internal Forces of Europe and International System, Europe's External Relations with Non-European Regions, Europe's Experiences and Lessons. The main characteristic of the third-year's research lies in expanding the experiences and lessons at European and international level learned from the first and second year's research outcomes, applying them to Asia and the Korean peninsula.
First, the first part of the third year's research on "Internal Forces of Europe and International System" investigates such topics as follows - Europeanization and a Possible Multi-dimensional International System, Forces in Relations between Nation States: Core, Periphery, and Semi-periphery, The Strengthening of EU and Interactions between Supranationalism and Nationalism, and Regional Challenges and Europe's Internal Forces. The second part of the research regarding EU's External Relations with Non-European Regions investigates such topics as EU's Economic External Relations: Interactions between Globalization and Europeanization, EU's Foreign and Security Policy on Middle East Peace Process, and International Political Economy on Human Rights: Europe's Immigrants Issue. The third part of the research regarding Europe's Experiences and Lessons investigated implications of Europe's experiences for Asia and the Korean peninsula based on the 3-year accumulated research outcomes. First, ASEM : Regional Cooperation for Establishing Active Partnerships - Historical Investigations into Mutual Relations between Asia and Europe highlighted. Also, it examines the way in which the European model could help to figure out the way to strengthen or weaken East Asian Regional Cooperation. EU's Experiences and Korean Integration: Integration of the South and North Korea. The three-year research has been done independently yet interdependently.