The Great Trade Alliance Formation Game in Asia-Pacific and four other articles are essential reading for students and researchers interested in interactions between the EU and countries in the Asia-Pacific, including Japan, on a variety of important current issues, such as trade, energy, currency union, and immigration and social integration. In this far-reaching analysis of the relations between Europe and Asia, the Japanese journalist-turned-academic Naohisa Murakami presents a fresh vision of how developments in Europe are affecting Asia and vice versa and how Asia is trying to draw lessons from European experiences.