A Comprehensive Study on Economic, Cultural, and Political Linkages among Asia, Japan, the U.S.and Europe

随着全球化的快速发展，欧盟、美国和亚洲这三个经济极之间的关系和动态变得非常重要，特别是在经济一体化方面。亚太经合组织就亚洲和美国以及亚欧会议就亚洲和欧洲讨论并实施了合作框架。与此同时，许多双边自由贸易协定已经提出并达成。在此背景下，本研究试图厘清亚洲、日本、美国和欧洲之间的经济、文化和政治联系。关于欧盟、美国和日本对泰国经济的影响这一主题，我们批判性地分析了他信经济学，并更全面地回顾了20世纪60年代以来的泰国经济。在全球化和国民经济方面，我们引入了Pasuk的研究，强调泰国文化在面对亚洲危机时的力量。此外，我们还分析了全球化背景下的发展政策问题。关于“中国问题的依赖性和突发性”这一主题，我们充分利用了贸易、投资等宏观经济数据。我们澄清了中国的弱点，并表明其他亚洲国家在许多方面仍有与中国竞争的空间。全球化和金融板块回顾了亚洲金融危机的起因，并提出了避免此类恼人政策失败的具体方法。最后一个主题是人口、老龄化和生产力，通过详细研究新加坡和日本的老年人生产力，向亚洲提出如何动员老年人以缓解未来老龄化社会的警告。

As globalization develops rapidly, the relationships and dynamics of the three economic poles, i.e., EU, the U.S., and Asia, become very important, especially in terms of economic integration. Cooperation frameworks have been discussed and implemented at APEC in case of Asia and the U.S. and ASEM in case of Asia and Europe. At the same time many bilateral FTAs have been proposed and concluded. These being the background, this research tries to clarify the economic, cultural, and political linkages among Asia, Japan, the U.S.and Europe. In regard with the theme on the influences of EU, the U.S.and Japan on Thai economy, we analyzed critically Thaksinomics and reviewed the Thai economy more generally since the 1960s. For globalization and national economy, we introduced Pasuk's study to emphasize the strength of Thai culture in face of the Asian crisis. In addition we analyzed development policy issues under globalization. For the theme on dependence and emergence of China issues, we made them dear by fully employing trade and investment and other macro economic data. We clarified the weakness of China and showed that other Asia still has some room to compete with China in many respects. The globalization and finance section reviewed causes of the Asian crises and suggested concrete ways to avoid such annoying policy failures. The final theme on population, aging, and productivity warns Asia how to mobilize aged people to ease future aging society by detailed study of productivity of the aged both in Singapore and Japan.