email:
bart.gaens@fiia.fi
telephone:
+358 9432 7788

Expertise

Japanese studies (area studies), Japan in the Asian regional context, major power relations in East Asia, EU-Asia relations, Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)

Degrees

PhD, Graduate University for Advanced Studies ( Japan)

Language skills

English, Dutch, Japanese (working languages), German, French, Finnish (receptive skills)

Projects


latest publications

Expertise

Japanese studies (area studies), Japan in the Asian regional context, major power relations in East Asia, EU-Asia relations, Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)

Positions of responsibility

Adjunct Professor, Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki

Work experience

Acting Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, University of Helsinki, 2009-2011
Project leader, Senior Researcher, University of Helsinki Network for European Studies, 2007-2009
Adviser, ASEM6-secretariat, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, 2006
Researcher, University of Helsinki Network for European Studies, 2005-2006

Current projects at FIIA

East Asian regionalism
Major power relations in East Asia

Degrees

PhD, Graduate University for Advanced Studies ( Japan)

Education

PhD, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Japan) 1999
MA, Osaka University of Foreign Studies (Japan) 1995
Licentiate, University of Leuven (Belgium) 1989

Language skills

English, Dutch, Japanese (working languages), German, French, Finnish (receptive skills)

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Gaens, Bart (2018). Two decades of the Asia-Europe Meeting. In Gaens, Bart & Khandekar, Gauri ed(s): Inter-regional relations and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 9-32.

Asia Europe European Union A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Gaens, Bart (2018). ASEM's process of enlargement and its implications. In Gaens, Bart & Khandekar, Gauri ed(s): Inter-regional relations and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 173-190.

Asia Multilateralism A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Gaens, Bart (2016). Comparing Japan and the European Union: the development cooperation policies of two civilian powers. In Asplund, Andre; Söderberg, Marie ed(s): Japanese Development Cooperation. The making of an aid Architecture Pivoting to Asia. Routledge. 141-158.

Asia Development cooperation Europe European Union Japan A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Gaens, Bart (2015). The future of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) : looking ahead into ASEM's third decade. In Gaens, Bart ed(s): 145.

Asia European Union Multilateralism D Publications intended for professional communities

Gaens, Bart & Vogt, Henri (2015). Sympathy or self-interest? : the development agendas of the European Union and Japan in the 2000s. In Bacon, Paul; Mayer, Hartmut; Nakamura, Hidetoshi ed(s): The European Union and Japan : a new chapter in civilian power cooperation? Farnham: Ashgate. 151-168.

Development cooperation European Union Japan A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Gaens, Bart (2015). ASEM enlargement: pitfalls and potential of an expanding partnership. In Gaens, Bart ed(s): The future of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) : looking ahead into ASEM's third decade. 65-85.

Asia Multilateralism D Publications intended for professional communities

Gaens, Bart (2015). ASEM in the wake of the Milan Summit. In Hofmeister, Wilhelm; Rueppel, Patrick ed(s): The future of Asia-Europe cooperation. Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

Asia Europe European Union Multilateralism B Non-refereed scientific articles

Gaens, Bart (2014). Japan, Europe and East Asian regionalism. In Liu Jianhui; Sano Mayuko ed(s): Rethinking “Japanese Studies” from Practices in the Nordic Region. Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies.

Asia Europe European Union Japan Multilateralism A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Gaens, Bart (2014). Kiinan pelko ohjaa Japania. Ulkopolitiikka, 4:68-71.

Asia China Japan D Publications intended for professional communities

Gaens, Bart Gaens (2013). Myanmarin nuorallatanssi. Ulkopolitiikka.

Asia D Publications intended for professional communities

Gaens, Bart (2013). EU in Southeast Asia: An alternative to other powers? A stamp on the world -blog, 12.11.

Asia European Union E Publications intended for the general public

Gaens, Bart (2012). Japan’s political power as reflected in Japanese Studies research. Gekkan Minpaku.

Asia Japan A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Gaens, Bart (2012). Myanmar avaa oviaan kurinalaisesti. Ulkopolitiikka.

Asia D Publications intended for professional communities

Gaens, Bart (2012). The rise of interregionalisms: the case of the European Union’s relations with East Asia. The Ashgate Research Companion to Regionalisms.

Asia European Union Multilateralism A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Japanin ‘kolmoiskatastrofi’ historian ja kulttuurin näkökulmasta.

Asia Japan A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

(R)emasculation of the Salaryman - Representations of Japanese White-Collar Employees in the Manga Shima Kôsaku.

Asia Japan B Non-refereed scientific articles

Company Culture or Patinated Past? - The Display of Corporate Heritage in Sumitomo.

Asia Japan A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

The development of the EU’s Asia strategy with special reference to China and India - Driving forces and new directions.

Asia China European Union India A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Jokela, Juha & Gaens, Bart (2009). Introduction. In Gaens, Bart; Jokela, Juha & Limnell, Eija ed(s): The Role of the European Union in Asia: China and India as Strategic Partners. Farnham: Ashgate.

Asia China Europe European Union India A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Europe-Asia Interregional Relations – A Decade of ASEM.

Asia European Union Multilateralism C Scientific books (monographs)

ASEM’s Institutional Infrastructure.

Asia Multilateralism A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

The Outcomes of the ASEM6 Summit in Helsinki.

Asia Europe European Union Multilateralism A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

ASEM as a Tool to ‘Bridge the Cultural Divide.

Asia Multilateralism A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

ASEM as an Economy-oriented Partnership.

Asia Economic policy Multilateralism A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

ASEM’s Background and Rationale.

Asia Multilateralism A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Puheenvuoro: Euroopalle lisää puhelinnumeroita.

Europe E Publications intended for the general public

All for One and One for All? Re-considering Collectivity in the Modernization of Japanese Business Firms.

Asia Economic policy Japan A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

ASEM in its Tenth Year – Looking Back, Looking Forward.

Asia Multilateralism D Publications intended for professional communities

Beyond ASEM VI: Lessons for the Actors.

Asia Multilateralism B Non-refereed scientific articles

Nihon shûkyû (sakkâ) bunka no hensen” (The transformation of Japan’s football culture).

Asia Japan B Non-refereed scientific articles

Who needs Japan anyway?

Asia Japan D Publications intended for professional communities

Chôja no yama – Kinseiteki keiei no Nichiô hikaku–” (Millionnaire’s Mountain – Early Modern Business Organization in Japan and Europe.

Asia Japan B Non-refereed scientific articles

A Comparative Examination of Early Modern European and Japanese Business Units.

Asia Japan B Non-refereed scientific articles

Family, Enterprise, and Corporation – The Organization of Izumiya-Sumitomo in the Tokugawa Period.

Asia Japan A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

The Organization of Merchant Houses in Tokugawa Japan ¬– a Comparison with the Low Countries.

Asia Europe Japan G Theses

Sakkâ bunka to shakaiteki henka. Kosei jûshi suru wakamono no shinboru (Football culture and social change. The symbol of individualistic youth).

Asia Japan E Publications intended for the general public

The Relation between family and Enterprise in Early Modern Japan - The House of Sumitomo as a Case Study.

Asia Japan A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

"Kinsei, kindai ni okeru Sumitomoke no kakun to kahô – Kagyô keiei to no kanrensei ni tsuite” (“The Household Codes of Izumiya-Sumitomo in the Tokugawa and Meiji Periods and Their Relation to Business Management”).

Asia Japan G Theses

Kinsei, kindai ni okeru Sumitomoke no kakun to kahô” (The Household Precepts of Izumiya-Sumitomo in the Tokugawa and Meiji Periods).

Asia Japan B Non-refereed scientific articles