国際政治経済学の方法論-トランスナショナルの事例-

国際経済の政治学

抄録

It is our common knowledge that politics and economics are today interwoven strands in the fabric of world order. In fact, both politics and economics cannot be dissociated with each other in terms of dynamics of mutual influences. Current international affairs have clearly witnessed this complexed linkage.
An important question is, however, to show the extent to which both are interrelated towards reconstructing an existing world system. This requires us to search for a new framework for analysis concerning international political economy. This is apparently a question of methodology: how theoretically should we approach to the emerging reality?
The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to attempt to establish a promising methodology with respect to international political economy. First, we shall try to compare major schools as those of “interdependence”, “world order”, and “transnational politics”, thereby to demonstrate what weakness and strength could be observed in the three approaches. Secondly, an argument will be extended to structural changes in world politics. This is precisely because the implications of structural changes will have a great significance on the way in which the frame-work for analysis be pursued. Finally, a transnational approach will be particularly proposed as a new methodological perspective. The validity of politico-economic models will be tested on the basis of evidence adduced from the latest case of American-Japanese transnationalism.