グローバリゼーションの政治学的分析に向けて -国際政治と比較政治の交錯を可能にするために-

比較政治と国際政治の間

抄録

This paper tries to explore the possibilities of cutting across the boundaries between international politics and comparative politics under the challenges of the extensive changes caused by globalization. Globalization is an essentially contested concept. It broadly covers the processes of change in the organization of social spaces under the intensification and heightening speed of international and transnational transactions. The process of globalization urges us to think thoroughly again about the basis and the basic entities of social analysis. For the study of international political economy, we would need to rethink the boundaries between the domestic politics and international politics and those between politics and economy. It is much easier to speak of the necessity of going beyond the division of labor between international and comparative politics than to really do so. Actually there are so many methodological and analytical obstacles.
Thus, this article starts with identifying those obstacles. Section one criticizes the recent literatures for their skeptical assessments of the impacts of the globalization. The author argues that these assessments come more from the problematic methodology and simplistic assumption about the impacts of globalization. Section two takes up the level-of-the-analysis problem in international relations from a critical perspective. Section three delineates the real world background for dividing the domestic sphere and international level of politics with some historical analyses. After the critical analyses of the obstacles for bridging the gap between international and domestic politics and building a theory of the politics of globalization, section four introduces the two levels of interaction between the state and the market. By distinguishing those two levels of politics, we would be able to see complex interaction between politics and economy. Section four also offers some insights into the multi-level and multi-functional processes of globalization and the roles of the state in it. Concluding section summerize the argument and suggests some possible directions for creating a positive interaction between the domestic and international political researches in order to understand the process of global change in a more sophisticated