EUIJ-Kyushu Review was co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union from September 2016 to August 2019
[News] EUIJ-Kyushu Review休刊のお知らせ/ Notice of discontinuation of EUIJ-Kyushu Review
学術雑誌「EUIJ-Kyushu Review」は、2011年4月のEuropean Union Institute in Japan, Kyushu（EUIJ九州）発足にともない創刊し、欧州連合（EU）に関する多様な分野における質の高い研究成果を公刊する国際的学術雑誌として発行してまいりました。
2016年9月からは、EUIJ九州の後継で欧州委員会（European Commission)の助成金プロジェクトJean Monnet Centre of Excellence-Kyushu（JMCoE-Q）のもと、発行（オンラインのみ）してまいりましたが、2019年8月31日のJMCoE-Q事業の終了をもって休刊することとなりました。
その間、EU関連の幅広い知識と理解の一層の普及を目的に、多分野でEU関連の研究に携わっておられる国際的な研究者による啓発的、かつ洞察に富む投稿をいただいてまいりましたが、創刊から8年半をもって一定の役割を終えた、ということにより休刊が決まりました。
休刊後も、EUIJ-Kyushu Reviewのウェブサイト（http://eu.kyushu-u.ac.jp/journal/）は継続いたしますので、バックナンバーの閲覧が可能です。
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2019年8月
九州大学EUセンター
Print edition: ISSN 2186-8239
Online edition: ISSN 2186-3385
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The academic journal “EUIJ-Kyushu Review” was launched following the formation of the European Union Institute in Japan, Kyushu (EUIJ-Kyushu) in April 2011, and has published high quality articles on academic research on a wide range of EU-related topics, as an international academic journal since that time.
Since September 2016, the journal has been issued (only available online) under the grant project titled Jean Monnet Center of Excellence-Kyushu (JMCoE-Q) funded from the European Commission as a successor to EUIJ-Kyushu. With the end of the JMCoE-Q activities on 31 August 2019, the journal is being discontinued.
In the meantime, seeking to further spread EU-related knowledge and understanding, we have published thought-provoking articles and book reviews which provide insight into our rapidly globalizing society from international researchers involved in all fields of EU studies.
The discontinuation of the EUIJ-Kyushu Review was decided after having completed its role over the past eight and a half years. After the discontinuation, since the website of the EUIJ-Kyushu Review (http://eu.kyushu-u.ac.jp/journal/) will continue, you can view the back issues.
Thank you very much for your support and cooperation during this long time.
August 2019
Kyushu University EU Centre
Print edition: ISSN 2186-8239
Online edition: ISSN 2186-3385
[Research Note] The Announcement Effect of Bilateral Trade Agreements on Share Prices: An analysis of the Economic Partnership Agreement between EU and Japan
*This paper was awarded “Best Paper and Presentation Award” at Asia-Pacific EU Centre Graduate Students Conference (10-11 February 2018).
※2018年2月10日～11日に開催されたアジア太平洋EUセン
Eriko SAITO, Kyushu University
Over the past three decades, efforts have been undertaken to reduce and remove barriers to trade around the world. As such, a large empirical literature has examined the impact of these developments on trade liberalization. For example, studies have estimated the trade liberalization impact of the 1996 US-Canada softwood lumber agreement, as well as on firm exit and entry and firm-level profits (for example Malhotra and Gulati, 1997; Trefler, 2004; Breinlich, 2015).
[News] URL変更のお知らせ / The EUIJ-Kyushu Review URL has changed.
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[Issue 5] Article 2: The Virtual Innovation Eco-System: Building Global Business Anywhere
Mark FENWICK, Kyushu University
Erik P.M. VERMEULEN, Tilburg University
Imagine two young Japanese innovators; let’s call them Hanako Sato and Taro Yamada. Let’s assume that Hanako and Taro have a disruptive idea for a high growth start-up business and that this idea shows real potential. They are driven, ambitious and both dream of building a global business that will change the world. Finally, let’s assume Hanako and Taro were born and grew up in the city of Fukuoka, located on the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan. In order to pursue their dream and bring their idea to market, Hanako and Taro are going to have to survive the difficult period in the early stage of the life cycle of a company known as the “Valley of Death”; the period between the initial capital contribution and the company generating a steady revenue stream. In order to be successful in this challenging task – after all, many businesses will fail at this early stage – Hanako and Taro will need to raise a significant amount of money. But this need for money raises a series of daunting questions: “Who should we turn to for investment?”; “What kind of money do we want to attract?”; “When is the right moment to seek investment?”; and, “Where should we locate our company, if our dream is to build a global business?”
[Issue 5] Article 1: スウェーデンにおける2014年欧州議会選挙 / 2014 European Parliament Election in Sweden
五月女律子 北九州市立大学法学部
Ritsuko SAOTOME, The University of Kitakyushu
This article has two aims. The first objective is to examine the 2014 European Parliament (EP) election in Sweden. Though established parties lost a number of seats, the Green Party increased its seats. Two new parties (a radical right populist party and a feminist party) got seats, but other new parties that won past elections failed to gain a seat. More than half of the seats are held by women. Since all elected EP members were over thirty years old, the young generation is under-represented in the result of 2014 EP election in Sweden.
[Issue 3 and 4] Book Review 1: Understanding the Euro Crisis
Understanding the Euro Crisis
The Future of Europe: Democracy, Legitimacy & Justice After the Euro Crisis
Serge Champeau, Carlos Closa, Daniel Innerarity & Miguel Poaries Maduro,
London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
ISBN: 978-1-78348-113-2
Reviewed by Mark FENWICK, Kyushu University
The sovereign debt crisis that has engulfed the European Union since 2008 has posed and – at the time of writing in early 2015 – continues to pose an existential threat both to the single currency and the whole project of European integration. Much has been written on the economic background, causes and effects of the crisis, but rather less on the meaning of the crisis from the perspective of political science, social theory and the law. The publication of The Future of Europe: Democracy, Legitimacy & Justice After the Euro Crisis is, therefore, to be welcomed as it brings together contributions from a number of disciplines to examine the unfolding crisis and the implications for the future of the euro from a “multi-disciplinary point of view”. Although the contributors seem sensitive to the dangers of talking about the “future” in the midst of the crisis, the resulting collection provides an important and thought-provoking snapshot of the current state of theoretical and normative debates on recent events and the future prospects for the EU.
[Issue 3 and 4] Article 2: The (Partially) Revised Austrian Passing of Risk Regime: An Example of Fragmentation of Domestic Law as a Consequence of EU Harmonisation
Stefan WRBKA, Kyushu University
Harmonisation of national private law via European Union (hereinafter EU) directives and regulations undeniably leads to increased legal defragmentation at the pan-EU (or: inter-Member State) level, i.e., to a greater amount of alignment of (content-wise) similar legal rules used by different European Member States (hereinafter Member States). Depending on the harmonisation level applied by the respective EU instrument, legal defragmentation can take a stronger (maximum / full harmonisation; hereinafter full harmonisation) or weaker (minimum harmonisation) form.
[Issue 3 and 4] Article 1: デンマークの国際平和活動 ―国連・NATO・EU― / Denmark’s Peace Operations: The UN, NATO, and the EU
五月女律子 北九州市立大学法学部
Ritsuko SAOTOME, The University of Kitakyushu
Denmark has taken part in many United Nations peacekeeping operations. After the end of the Cold War, Denmark has also actively participated in peace support operations led by NATO and the United States. However, Denmark has not sent troops to military crisis management led by the European Union (EU), because Denmark decided to opt out of the common defence of the EU.
[Issue 2] Book Review 1: European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability
EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENTS IN CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY
JAMES GOBERT& ANA-MARIA PASCAL
LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, 2011
Reviewed by Mark FENWICK, Kyushu University
One of the most important changes brought about by the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty was the introduction of a new framework for European Union criminal law. The problematic characterization of criminal law as belonging to the third “pillar” of the Union and hence an “intergovernmental” issue was finally ended, thus placing criminal law issues on an equal footing with other areas of Union law.