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Regionalism beyond East Asia: Membership, Governance and Legitimacy

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K01532
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 06020:International relations-related
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

SHU Min  早稲田大学, 国際学術院, 准教授 (20534986)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords地域主義論 / 東アジア / TPP / RCEP / AIIB / 地政学 / 中国 / 日本 / regionalism / free trade agreement / development finance / Indo-Pacific / BRI / 地域主義 / 自由主義 / 国際秩序 / インフラ投資 / 国際貿易 / インド太平洋 / Regionalism / East Asia / (CP)TPP / Trade / Geopolitics / メガFTA / リベラルな国際秩序 / パワー・トランジション / 地域統合論
Outline of Research at the Start

Focusing on TPP, RCEP, and AIIB, this research seeks to understand how regional economic cooperation has evolved into a distinctive form of ‘regionalism beyond East Asia’ in the 2010s. The project is an attempt to understand the regional dynamics of the trade-related RCEP and TPP, and the development-oriented AIIB. It focuses on three essential aspects of ‘East Asia-plus regionalism’: (i) the inclusion of extra-regional members, (ii) the new mode of regional economic governance, and (iii) the legitimization of their institutional arrangement.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is an original attempt to study the emergence of ‘East Asia-plus regionalism’ in the 2010s when regional cooperative schemes actively embraced countries from outside East Asia. The main results are as follows. First, fieldwork was conducted in Japan, China and the United States for in-depth case studies of the TPP, the RCEP and the AIIB. Second, I did extensive library research at Stanford University and gave a public lecture at its Center for East Asian Studies. Third, by looking into how East Asia-plus regionalism reflected the geopolitical challenges of power transition and the policy debates between neoliberalism and developmentalism, the project has extended the existing theoretical framework of East Asian regionalism. In terms of research outcomes, I published three book chapters in edited volumes, and delivered 13 presentations at major domestic and international conferences. Two international academic meetings were organized at Stanford and Waseda Universities.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

東アジアにおける地域経済協力は、2010年代に入って以降、ASEAN+3の枠組みを超え、環太平洋パートナーシップ協定(TPP)や地域的な包括的経済連携協定(RCEP)、アジアインフラ投資銀行(AIIB)など新たな枠組みの下で貿易自由化とインフラ投資を中心に進んできた。本研究は、TPP、RCEPとAIIBの事例に焦点を絞り、地政学と国際政治経済学の視点を用いて地域経済協力がどのように「東アジアを超える地域主義」に変身しつつあるのかを解明した。それを通じて、権力移行期の地政学や地域経済協力に対する新自由主義と開発主義の影響など、理論面と実証面から東アジアの地域統合論を再検討することに貢献した。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (22 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019

All Presentation (16 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Invited: 7 results) Book (4 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Presentation] Japan as a Second-Tier Great Power: Japan’s Regional Trade Agreement in East Asia2024

    • Author(s)
      SHU, Min
    • Organizer
      Center for Japanese Studies, Fudan University
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Reconsidering China’s Rise under the Post-Cold War Liberal International Order2023

    • Author(s)
      SHU, Min
    • Organizer
      International Studies Association Asia-Pacific (ISA-AP) Region Conference 2023
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Second-Tier Great Power in Power Transition: Japan’s Pursuit of a Regional Trade Agreement in East Asia2023

    • Author(s)
      SHU, Min
    • Organizer
      School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Bordering Liberal International Order in East Asia2023

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      International Studies Association Annual Convention
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] East Asia on the Borderland of the Liberal International Order2022

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      Annual Conference of American Political Science Association
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Ukraine Crisis and the China-EU Relations2022

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      Sophia Institute of International Studies Symposium Structural Change and the EU under the Tripolar Order of US, China and Russia,
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Japan and the Struggle for a Regional Trade Agreement in East Asia2022

    • Author(s)
      Shu, Min
    • Organizer
      International Studies Association Annual Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] East Asia and the Borderland of the Liberal International Order: A Regional History2022

    • Author(s)
      Shu, Min
    • Organizer
      SCRIPTS Regional Conference: "Liberal Scripts: Asian Versions and Contestations of A Concept"
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Power Transition and Order Preservation in Historical East Asia2021

    • Author(s)
      Shu, Min
    • Organizer
      Waseda-PKU Workshop on International Political Economy
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] ‘The Domestic Politics of Overseas Infrastructure Investment in Southeast Asia'2020

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      AAS-in-Asia 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 'Rising Power and Norm Diffusion'2020

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 'Liberalizing the Liberal International Order in East Asia'2020

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      Waseda-PKU Workshop on 'Economic and Security Dynamics in East Asia'
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Economic Regionalism in East Asia2019

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      Waseda-PKU Joint Workshop on Economic Cooperation in Asia Pacific Region in a New Era
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Japan and the Struggles for a Regional Trade Agreement in East Asia2019

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      Global Emerging Scholar Forum on China, Shaper Powers, and the Changing World Order
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] International Relations of the Ming-Qing Transition2019

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Rising Power, Status Aspiration and Norm Diffusion2019

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Organizer
      International Workshop on A ‘Multiplex’ World: East Asian International Relations and Foreign Policies
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Book] 世界変動と脱EU/超EU2022

    • Author(s)
      岡部みどり、森井裕一、坂井一成、八十田博人、細田晴子、市川顕、藤嶋亮、中井遼、小舘尚文、今井宏平、湯浅剛、舒 旻、前嶋和弘、植木安弘
    • Total Pages
      336
    • Publisher
      日本経済評論社
    • ISBN
      9784818826038
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 世界変動と脱EU/超EU ポスト・コロナ、米中派遣競争下の国際関係(第11章 中国:EUとの脆弱な相互依存)2022

    • Author(s)
      舒旻(岡部みどり編著)
    • Total Pages
      336
    • Publisher
      日本経済評論社
    • ISBN
      9784818826038
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] New Perspectives on International Studies in Asia-Pacific, Ch. 7 "Business, State, and Geopolitics: Decoding the Changing Dynamics of Economic Regionalism in East Asia"2021

    • Author(s)
      Min Shu
    • Total Pages
      394
    • Publisher
      Waseda University Press
    • ISBN
      9784657210012
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『よくわかるEU政治』(「中国」)2020

    • Author(s)
      坂井一成・八十田博人編(舒旻)
    • Total Pages
      240
    • Publisher
      ミネルヴァ書房
    • ISBN
      9784623088249
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Chinese Political Economy and Asian Studies: A Symposium in Honor of Professors Oi and Walder2023

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Stanford Center for East Asian Studies Seminar: ‘East Asia and the Borderland of the Liberal Order'2023

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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