PART I: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION 1. Introduction: Sustainable Economic Integration in the Asia Context; Bernadette Andreosso O'Callaghan, Jacques Jaussaud and M. Bruna Zolin 2. Sustainable Economic Integration: the Experience of the European Union; Andrea Mairate PART II: ASSESSING ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN ASIA 3. Regional Integration Within Greater China. State of Play and Future Prospects; Francoise Nicolas 4. The China-Taiwan Relationship: Economic Integration and Normalization; Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan and Qin Tang 5. Unexpected and Growing Interest in Land Investments? The Asian Case; Lucia Luzi, M. Bruna Zolin 6. In Pursuit of Appropriate Patterns of Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development; Ota Tatsuyuki 7. Localisation of Management Positions in European and Japanese Subsidiaries in Asia: A Qualitative Investigation; Bruno Amann, Shiho Futagami, Jacques Jaussaud, Shuji Mizoguchi, Hiroyuki Nakamura and Johannes Schaapes 8. The Impact of Non-Tariff Barriers in the European Union on China's Exports; Utai Uprasen