Complementary European historiography in terms of power sharing system; the case of Estonia, Spain, Moldova

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K01049
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 03040:History of Europe and America-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: KOMORI HIROMI 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (50353454)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 奥野 良知 愛知県立大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20347389)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 主権 / ネイション / マイノリティ / 権力分有 / エストニア / カタルーニャ / モルドヴァ / 認識バイアス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we aimed to refine the concept of "power sharing" in political science using the historical methodology, and from that perspective, we attempted to reconsider the uneven nature of state-formation and nation-building in modern Europe, through the research on the so-called peripheral countries and areas. It can be said that in the modern era, there has been subsequence of the discord and conflicts between groups over the perceptions on people/nation, based on which, as well as having originated from which, the contentions over the sovereignty in terms of discourse and real politics have not been ceased in the so-called "western" Europe. Further it should be pointed out in the external understandings concerning the situation may be given rise to cognitive biases in the respective contexts both of "Western" and "Eastern" Europe.

Free Research Field

ヨーロッパ近現代史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では、比較されることの少ないエストニア、スペイン（カタルーニャ）、モルドヴァを対象に、多数の「民族」がいるからといって民族紛争が起こりやすいわけではないこと、ヨーロッパの歴史の中に多様な「民族」集団間共存の試みを見つけることができるし、そうした試みは、実は「周辺」国・地域に少なくないこと、他方で、民族やその権利に関する認識の競合ゆえに衝突や紛争が継起することについて歴史学的に明らかにした。