ABSTRACT
Time and again, Europe-Asia relations have been described as the "missing side" of a triangle that also includes the historical transatlantic and the blooming transpacific relationships. The level of this discourse can only grow as the United States, thanks to the so-called New Economy and its Schumpeterian computer-based cycle, increases its international preeminence where most observers thought it would diminish. Yet the advent of the single unified market in 1993, and the decision to create a single European currency before the year 2000, along with the rise in cross-trading between Europe and Asia, have also pushed Asians to aim for some form of coordination with Europe.
