Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-264) and index.

EU-Japan political relations in a fluid global order / Hartmut Mayer -- Japan as a "proactive civilian power" : domestic constraints and competing priorities / Hidetoshi Nakamura -- The EU in a changing global order : is emergent German hegemony making the EU even more of a civilian power? / Mario Teló -- The EU through the eyes of Japan : perceptions of the European Union as a civilian power / Paul Bacon and Martin Holland -- Three balancing acts : the EU's trade policy towards East Asia / Min Shu -- The political and institutional significance of an EU-Japan trade and partnership agreement / Frederik Ponjaert -- Food fights or a recipe for cooperation? : EU-Japan relations and the development of norms in food safety policy / Gijs Berends -- Environmental and energy policy : learning and cooperation between the European Union and Japan / Miranda A. Schreurs -- Sympathy or self-interest? : the development agendas of the European Union and Japan in the 2000s / Bart Gaens and Henri Vogt -- Saving the Kyoto Protocol : what can we learn from the experience of Japan-EU cooperation? / Hiroshi Ohta and Yves Tiberghien -- EU-Japan relations : civilian power and the domestication/localization of human rights / Paul Bacon -- The EU, Japan and the Balkans : cooperation for post-conflict nation-building / Dimitar Bechev -- Global governance of dual use in biomedical research : cooperation between the EU and Japan on how to minimize or prevent misconduct and misuse / Yasue Fukuda -- Accountability and the governance of food safety policy in the EU and Japan / Koji Fukuda.