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Because of broad similarities in their economies, energy security—the availability of energy at all times, in various forms, in sufficient quantities, and at affordable prices—is an issue of common concern for Asia and Europe. Any option chosen by one region will necessarily reverberate in the other. In particular, the rise in energy demand in Asia, most of all in China, will have obvious implications for Europe, as well as for the rest of the world. This publication of the Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation (CAEC), for which JCIE serves as the Asian secretariat, examines the strategic implications of the other region’s choices, compares existing and potential schemes for regional cooperation, and defines areas for interregional cooperation. For example, one significant finding of the task force, a group comprised of Asian and European political scientists and economists, was a need for expertise transfer from the more advanced to the less advanced countries in the partnership.

 

Francois Godement is director of Centre asie ifri, Institut francais des relations internationales Affairs at Harvard University. Francoise Nicolas is a senior research fellow at IFRI. Taizo Yakushiji is a member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy of the Cabinet Office and executive research director of the International Institute for Policy Studies,Tokyo.

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