1992 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The State and Regional Integration
| Project/Area Number |
03455005
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
広領域
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
KLEINSCHMIDT Harald Univ. of Tsukuba, Inst. of Hist./Anthrop. Assoc. Prof., 歴史人類学系, 助教授 (60225240)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAKEZAWA Yasuko Univ. of Tsukuba, Inst. of Mod. Lang. and Cult. Assist. Prof., 現代語・現代文化学系, 講師 (70227015)
YAMADA Tadashi Univ. of Tsukuba, Inst. of Soc. and Econ. Assoc. Prof., 社会工学系, 助教授 (10210460)
HATANO Sumio Univ. of Tsukuba, Inst. of Soc. Sci. Assoc. Prof., 社会科学系, 助教授 (00208521)
IWASAKI Mikiko Univ. of Tsukuba, Inst. of Soc. Sci. Assoc. Prof., 社会科学系, 助教授 (30183015)
AKINO Yutaka Univ. of Tsukuba, Inst. of Soc. Sci. Assoc. Prof., 社会科学系, 助教授 (70142677)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1991 – 1992
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| Keywords | Regional Integration / Federalism / European Community / Nation-State / Ethnicity / Nationalism / Identity / Regional Cooperation |
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| Research Abstract |
The general goal of the project was to subject the theoretical and conceptual relationship between the state and regional integration to a critical scrutiny based on studies of empirical cases. It was found that existing regional integration theory could not provide sufficiently apt means for the purpose of accomplishing the goal. Therefore the efforts of the project included a reformulation of regional integration theory, whose basic flaws were discovered to lie in its elitist biases, its primary concern with Europe and its essentially functionalist value-orientation. In order to remedy these flaws, the following tasks were set to be fulfilled by a reformulated regional integration theory: first that a conceptual instrumentarium should be created applicable everywhere; secondly, that a framework of value-orientations should be established suitable to the conditions of the presently changing patterns and structures of international relations. In fulfillment of the first task, region was defined as a relatively stable identity-conveying political, economic or cultural whole. The second task was accomplished by way of defining integration as a procedural concept involving the rearrangement of existing multiple loyalties.
Based on this new theoretical framework for regional integration, it has become salient to focus on empirical cases other than the European Community, namely NAFTA (especially its Canadian perspective), North Pacific Regional Cooperation, North American 'ethnic' identities, the East African Community, the former Soviet Union, the Central European Initiative, the Nordic Council, 18th-century contractual integration in Europe, migration as a factor of regional integration in early medieval Europe. Parts of the results of the project will be published in a volume of collected essays "The State and Regional Integration" to be published by Dobunkan in the summer of 1993.
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