ABSTRACT
The deep core of the European Union is Roman Catholic—with a long-standing common culture and a centre of power, the Vatican—and Germanic-Protestant, with considerable economic, political and military power. No major Slavic Orthodox or Turko-Muslim countries are likely to become members in the very near future. Europe has improved since the two world wars, and one Cold War, in the twentieth century. Korea is located in the field of force constituted by four big powers: the USA and Japan on one side, well established in South Korea even if resented by parts of the population, and China and the Soviet Union/Russia on the other, with complex relations with North Korea. Both East Asian Community and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Asia/Pacific (OSCAP) are multilateral. Russia is being trained by Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to submit to some multilateralisation (not for Chechnya) and there could be a transfer of that experience to OSCAP.
