Bridging the Visegrad Group and East Asia Through Cooperation

Lukáš Laš

doi:10.18778/8088-758-9

Bridging the Visegrad Group and East Asia Through Cooperation

Lukáš Laš

University of Ostrava

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Overcoming Controversies in East Asia

Series: Contemporary Asian Studies Series

Pages: 137-154

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8088-758-9.09

Keywords: Chinese foreign policy, women’s economy, regional security, nuclear tests, military reform, economic cooperation, image of China

Published: 30 December 2017

Categories: Political science and international relations, Open Access

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The re-emergence of East Asia brought more interactions of Asian capital and peoples with the countries of the Visegrad Group (V4). China, the Republic of Korea, Japan have a history of relations with Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The moderate discovering of Asia by the V4 in the last decade is being substituted by growing Central European governmental initiatives to attract capital, products, tourists, and to cultivate cooperation with East Asia. The paper is devoted to a review of Visegrad–East Asia relations with a focus on trade cooperation. Its goals are to reflect on current trends and to popularize the Visegrad brand of the EU in Asia.

Lukáš Laš, University of Ostrava

LUKÁŠ LAŠ, Ph.D., Mgr. is a Lecturer of Political Geography with a focus on East Asia at the Department of Human Geography and Regional Development, and an International Officer at the Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava in Czechia. He provides teaching of two courses; Japan in Political Geography of East Asia since 2016 and Limits of Development in India and China since 2011. He co-authored the article ‘Japanese Geopolitics of the Imperial Period’, Geografie, vol. 119, no. 4, pp. 364–383 in 2014 and defended the doctoral thesis “Geopolitics of Japan and Strategic Effects of Emergent Asia” in 2015. His research interests deal with cooperation between the EU and East Asia, and with political geography of Indo-Pacific Asia.

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Laš, Lukáš. 2017. “Bridging the Visegrad Group and East Asia Through Cooperation”. In Overcoming Controversies in East Asia, edited by Tomasz Kamiński, 137-54. Contemporary Asian Studies Series. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8088-758-9.09.