The New Regionalism in France : Developing a Transborder Coexistence and Coprosperity Model

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K12538
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 80010:Area studies-related
• Research Institution: Ferris University
• Principal Investigator: UEHARA Yoshiko フェリス女学院大学, 国際交流学部, 教授 (90310549)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 国境 / 辺境 / バスク / 地中海 / 移民 / インド・太平洋 / EU / 移民

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims to establish a cross-border and co-beneficial model of political-economic identity through the analysis of French peripheral and border regions. It demonstrates that, despite the high unemployment rates and depopulation that those regions face, they have established their own extended identity through European integration, and have created peace and prosperity by forming a co-existing and co-beneficial space through development of a nomadic lifestyle and tourism as well as introduction of high-tech industries.
The research additionally demonstrates that, as Asia-Pacific economic growth has developed,the Pacific territories have increased their importance as a new periphery and have cultivated a new identity of “France as a Pacific country.” It further argues that establishing a network between the mainland and Pacific territories has emerged as a political challenge for France.

Free Research Field

地域研究

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

国境地帯のマイノリティや貧困問題においては、政治・行政における権利や文化・言語の尊重に加え、越境的なアイデンティティの保持、先端産業等による地域経済の活性化、また国境を越えた生活空間の構築等、国家の枠を越えたグローバル時代の新たな越境的な解決策が重要であることを解明した。
加えて国際関係の急激な変容に伴い、国境地帯・辺境の概念がフランス本国からアジア・太平洋へと拡大・変容した。緊張の続くインド・太平洋の国際関係において、フランスは太平洋地域の島嶼部の領土・領海を重視し、アジアにおける新しい公共空間の構築に積極的に参加し、日本の国際関係においても不可欠の存在となっていることを明らかにした。