グローバル・システムの変容
グローバル・システムの変容
1996 年 1996 巻 111 号 p. 1-4,L5
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1996 年 1996 巻 111 号 p. 1-4,L5
We are now directly facing a Global System instead of International System which has consisted of a nation-state system. In the period when a nation-state system has been so powerful and broadly effective in international affairs not only in terms of military conflicts but also in terms of trade issues and cultural disputes, the World should have been under the control of multi-network of nation-states.
As it is well known, there are three sud-systems in a nation-state: one is a governmental system located at the top of a nation-state, and the second is a political society system located also at the bottom of it, and finally the third is a political process system located just between the two. When a nation-state has been so effective in World politics, a governmental system has been working in the most influential ways in politics as in the 1950s. However, the interest groups have started working in international stages, when the age of economy has come, though interest groups are located under a governmental system as in the 1970s. As the time gone on, people at large who are considered to be at the bottom of a political system have come to appear international affairs.
As this shows, a nation-state system can not be occupied by only a governmental system, and other systems soch as a political process and a political society have begun to be effective in World affairs. This stage should be newly called the age of the Global System instead of the International System mainly because of that. There should be three dimensions in the Global System for research: one is to find out new actors with a government as NGO. The second is to make research on international integrations not only in terms of military coalitions as NATO, but also in terms of Global economic activities such as NAFT. This is rather activities of regional and localized fields. And finally there should be a study of the Global System itself on how it will be shifting.
This volume will cover these three dimensions for further studies of Global System researches. As for the conclusion, the transformation of the Global System should be with the transformation in the Global System.
