東アジアの多国間主義-日本と中国の地域主義政策-

多国間主義の検証

抄録

The tide of regionalism that originated in Europe and covered the Americas finally reached East Asia in the latter half of the 1990s. The causes were various, including: the search for a new order in the post-Cold War era; the rise in regional economic interdependence as a corollary of the advancement of globalisation; the fear of exclusive bloc formation and the need for an 'open regionalism' in the case of APEC; the outbreak of the Asian Financial Crisis which gave birth to the ASEAN+3 by enhancing the sense of a common interest and destiny among the East Asian nations; and the rise of China, which increased the confidence of the Chinese in participating in multilateral forums and stimulated the other countries to engage and co-opt China into the regional framework. The success of East Asian regionalism depends largely on the future relationship of Japan and China. The two nations, which now seem to be competing in their promotion of regional frameworks, share the task of overcoming narrow nationalism and materialising a dialectical development between multilateralism and bilateral relations.