市民・外交・平和-民際政治の形成と外交領域-

「平和研究」-その方法と課題-

抄録

While we know a great deal about the process of foreign policymaking, we know virtually nothing about the societal influence of transnational relations on the adaptive behavior of nations. We have many studies of foreign relations on governmental level, but no studies on non-governmental level.
Today, however, when many kinds of transnational actors are disturbing the field of foreign relations, menacing the values held by citizens, it is urgent for us to analyze multinational and transnational relations, and to have a new theoretical perspective which throws light on these relations effectively. What is needed is to generalize the multinational political arena, to legitimaize civilian diplomacy, to enlarge the concept of citizenship according to the range of functional interdependence, and to find new measures to weaken the structural violence.
Our main problem in this orientation is to develop a theory of new diplomacy which makes units not only expand functionally but above all redistribute the produced values equally, and have the social organization which reflects truly the interests of its members.
The author, having surveyed a decade of theroretical trends in dipolomatic investigation, reveals the reason why we should choose this line of study, and presents the problems and methods to carry it out as a peace study.