Asia and Latin America

by Jörn Dosch (editor), Olaf Jacob (Editor)

Until the late 1980s, Japan was the only country in Asia with notable political and economic relations. Since then, however, several Asian nations have perceived growing links with the Latin American region as a means of diversifying their political and particularly economic relations while many Latin American decision-makers have increasingly recognised the strategic importance of East Asia in their foreign policy and foreign economic policy designs. This book analyses the economic, political and socio-cultural relations between Asia and Latin America and examines their growing importance in international relations. In the first part of the book the contributors look at the policies, interests and strategies of individual Asian and Latin American states, while the second part delves into the analysis of multilateral institution-building in Asia-Latin America relations,. As such, Asia and Latin America will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate scholars of comparative politics, international relations, Asian politics and Latin American politics.

266 pages, Hardcover

First published February 4, 2010

About the author

Prof. Dr Jörn Dosch is Professor of International Politics and Development Cooperation at the University of Rostock, Germany, the oldest university in Northern Europe. He is also Adjunct Professor at Monash University Malaysia where he was previously Acting Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Former positions also include chair of Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Leeds where he was also Head of the Department of East Asian Studies, one of the largest university departments of its kind in Europe.

He began his academic career in the early 1990s as a Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Mainz, Germany, before moving to Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar later in the same decade.

He has also held visiting fellowships at several Universities and research institutes, including the East West Center in Honolulu, UNPAR in Bandung, Prince of Songkla University in Thailand, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore, De La Salle University in Manila and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta.

Prof Dosch has been working on international relations in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia Pacific region for more than 20 year and published several dozen books and articles on ASEAN-related issues. He has also worked as an evaluator and consultant on ASEAN matters for the European Union, the German Federal Ministries of Economic Cooperation and Development and Foreign Affairs respectively, UNDP, and several other organisations. He has been team leader or deputy team leader of ten missions to the ASEAN Secretariat and ASEAN Member states since 2008.