ハーバード大学US-Japan Prograｍから出版された英文の論文の紹介です
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A Study on Security in the Asia-Pacific Region - Focusing on the ASEAN Regional Forum and the US-Japan Security Alliance- (Abstruct) The security environment of the Asia-Pacific region is unstable and fluid in the post-Cold War regime, and remnants of the Cold War confrontation still remain in the region. The condition in the Asia-Pacific region is very different from that in Europe, where the security environment and security structure have dramatically changed since the end of the East-West confrontation. While there have been various kinds of military threats and challenges to regional security, nonmilitary challenges have appeared in the last couple of dacades. These new challenges have become apparent as regional economic interdependence developed. Because of many kinds of uncertainties, regional security has largely depended on several bilateral security arrangements between the United States and its Asian allies, or a so-called "hub and spokes" security structure. However, in the post-Cold War era, new types of multilateral security frameworks such as ASEAN Regional Forum(ARF) have emerged in the region. Although as a multilateral institution for security cooperation, the Forum is still at its beginning stages, it has developed steadily since its creation by ASEAN. In this paper, first, I describe the present condition of international relations in the Asia-Pacific region and the region's characteristics in comparison with other regions of the world. Second, I discuss changes in the concept of security and in the security environment of the region. Third, I discuss the major characteristics of the ARF, the development of the ARF process, an assessment of the ARF process, limitation of the role of the ARF for peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, and the possibility of the ARF into evolving a collective security mechanism like the UN. Fourth, I draw a comparison between the ARF and the US-Japan Security Alliance in terms of function, and the discuss the influence of the development of the ARF process on the bilateral alliance and vice versa. Finally, as a conclusion, I discuss the possibility that the ARF will develop into a more sophisticated multilateral framework for security and cooperation in the future. |
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