We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
「東アジア」とアメリカ-広域概念をめぐる闘争-.
- Authors
Nakano Satoshi
- Abstract
Since the end of Cold War, a new mega-geographical concept of “Higashi Ajia (East Asia),” which inclusively refers to both the Northeast (traditional “Higashi Ajia”) and the Southeast Asia, has gained large currency in the Japanese academic as well as public discourses. The article first discusses how the concept has emerged with its emphasis on the contemporary and historical economic and cultural ties within the mega-region, while arguments on regionalism or regional political orders have conspicuously been absent. Then the article looks at a competitive relation since the early 1990s between “Higashi Asia” and another mega-geographical concept of “Ajia Taiheiyō (Asia-Pacific),” which has gained popularity not only among the Japanese public media but also in international politics, in which the U.S. and Japanese governments have tried very hard to confine the influence of East Asian regionalism throughout the process of the redefinition of the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance in the mid 1990s. This article concludes that the current concept of “East Asia” in Japanese academic as well as public discourses has possibly been “detoxed” in a way so as to not confront the continuing military and political presence of the United States as a hegemonic power in the East Asia-Pacific region, and argues that historians of “Higashi Ajia” should be more aware of the political environment behind the very notion of the mega-geographical concept which they rely on in their academic endeavors.
- Subjects
PACIFIC Area; EAST Asia-United States relations; STRATEGIC rivalries (International relations); INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Journal of Historical Studies / Rekishigaku Kenkyu, 2013, Issue 907, p15
- ISSN
0386-9237
- Publication type
Article