Mutual Support and Common Interests in Asia and European Neighborhoods

Michito Tsuruoka, 'Mutual Support and Common Interests in Asia and European Neighborhoods', Policy Brief (Washington, DC: German Marshall Fund of the United States, April 2015) has just been published and is available at the GMF website here.

Link: http://www.gmfus.org/publications/mutual-support-and-common-interests-asia-and-european-neighborhoods

It looks at security linkages between Europe and Japan particularly in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. The degree of interconnectedness between the two regions is increasing, but is Europe too busy in dealing with its own neighbourhood? Europe-Japan/Asia security cooperation has already become a strategic imperative.