May 23,2014 Special Forum

Multilateralism in East Asia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

In his masterpiece, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Italian film director Sergio Leone constructed a surreal cinematic space through microscopic close-ups of his movie characters juxtaposed against the vast macroscopic landscape of the greater American West. These characters were not merely captured by the camera; they were monumentalized by it, a flirt with […]

Jochen Prantl
East Asia , EU , formal-informal continuum , global-regional next , great power management , layered hierarchy of states , the state as market actor