1992 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
EXPANSION OF MODERN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COCERNING LONG-DISTANCE TRADE NETWORKS
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03301071
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAKAGE Susumu University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences, Professor, 教養学部, 教授 (10115959)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
CHUDO Yukimasa Daitobunka University, Faculty of International Relations, Associate Professor, 国際関係学部, 助教授
TAMURA Airi Tokyo International University Faculty of Commerce, Associate Professor, 商学部, 助教授 (50166584)
TANAKA Akihiko University of Tokyo, Institute of Oriental Culture, Associate Professor, 東洋文化研究所, 助教授 (30163497)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1991 – 1992
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| Keywords | long distance trade / modern state system / trade network / transnational relations |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project has aimed at delinaeating interactive linkages between the expansion of modern international system since the sixteenth century and international relations in various regions over long-distance trade networks. The project's final report consists of five chapters and a select bibliography. The first chapter entitled "modern international system and trade networks in historical perspective" deals with methodological problems on evaluating the expansion of the West, and stressed the necessity of synthesizing Western viewpoint (so-called Orientalism) and anti-orientalism. Written by Tanaka Akihiko, specialist of theoretical international system, the second chapter is entitled "What is the analytical unit of macro-history". This chapter compares various methodologies of historical discourses covering wide areas and long time-ranges. In the third chapter, Chudo Yukimasa, economic historian, discusses "European Jews and 'modern world system'" focusing the role of Jewish communities in western Europe upon the formation of modern capitalistic transnational system while referring to Marxist controversies on the subject. Tamura Airi, specialist of modern Islamic world, questions diagonal positions of orientalism and revisionism on understanding the encounter of the Middle East with the West in the fourth chapter entitled "Orientalism and Revisionism". She points out that both arguments share the same structural preoccupations that overlook the linakage between locality and globality. The last chapter written by Yamakage Susumu focuses the formation and transformation of the image of Southeast Asia in connection with the functions of trade diasporas. As a whole the final report presents the alternative view of modern world system, and calls for a new epistemological perspective.
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