インドシナの統合-植民地的インドシナと新しい「インドシナ」-

アジアの民族と国家 東南アジアを中心として

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This paper describes the integration of Indochina historically, comparing it to the case of Indonesia.
Indochina and Indonesia are both within the territorial framework set up by the European colonial government, but the latter became a framework for the nation-state while the former did not. This difference derives from two historical causes: first, becaue of the presence of differnt orders prior to the colonial rule in each area. That is Jawa nucleus of Indonesia, held the tradition of open port-state, while Vietnam, a nucleus of Indochina, was a closed agricultural state. Second, because of the different ways of colonial rule which strongly influenced the development of the nationalist movements in each area. In Indonesia, the chances for people who had different cultures to meet together inside the territory built up within the colonial bureau-cracy, whereas in Indochina, the colonial bureaucracy was filled mainly with Vietnameses, so chances like those in Indonesia were very limited.
However, the failure to become a nation-state does not mean that the framework of Indochina became meaningless thereafter. The Vietnamese communists and their counterparts in Cambodia and Laos are attempting to reorganize Indochina as an alliance among the three nations of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. This attempt for creating a new “Indochina” was regularilized after the Second World War and has built up integration to a certain extent.
This new “Indochina” represents an attempt to bring about first political integration with communist parties and armies as the principal organization in the midst of fragile conditions of social integration. Although this new “Indochina” still hasn't matured enough to build stable integration in this area, it can not be disregarded in the case of considering the current Cambodian problem.