Impacts of Rapid Social Change in South East Asia: IntroductionMalte Boecker

ASIEN – Nr. 110 (2009) pp. 9–12

European-Asian cooperation is an important key to mastering the geo-strategic challenges of the 21st century. To this extent, for several years now the Bertelsmann Stiftung has been committed to intensifying understanding with Asia. The aim is to gain a realistic view of the opportunities and risks afforded by this, the largest of continents, where, as Prof. Jean-Pierre Lehmann of Evian Group coined it „both the strongest economic dynamism and the greatest geopolitical fault-lines“ are to be found…