中日東亞主義比較研究 — 從「東亞高峰會」觀察

Abstract

After the end of the Cold War, the interactions of international community have gradually moved from the confrontation of high-politics to the non-traditional security of low-politics such as economic cooperation and competition. East Asia’s economic integration is mainly influenced by the US-led “Asia-Pacificism”, Chinese and Japanese “East- Asianism” as well as the ASEAN-proposed “Aseanism”. The interactions among these three regionalisms have formed the major pillars for the development trend of East Asia’s economic integration. The realization of Chinese “continental East-Asianism and Japanese “oceanic East-Asianism” focuses on the operations of “East Asian Summit” and the construction of “East Asian community”. In the process of regional integration, ASEAN is one of the most important “actors”; however, in the operations of ASEAN+3 and East Asian Summit, ASEAN has no sufficient capability to establish a path for East Asia’s integration. ASEAN’s role is more like a “pioneer” than a “power source” for regional integration. The real “power source” for East Asia’s integration is China and Japan. While China plays such a role as “active leader” for the development of East Asia Summit, Japan is an “integrator” for the summit. Both countries compete with each other for the dominance of East Asia’s integration. In essence, the development of East Asia’s integration will depend on Chinese and Japanese relations. This thesis intends to study the differences between East-Asianisms proposed by China and Japan respectively. It also examines the cooperation and competition between the two. How these two countries make use of East Asia Summit as platform to realize their own ideas concerning the development of East Asianism is another concern of this study. It should be noted that the US factor is a key force that can influence the future development of East Asia’s economic integration. To be sure, to examine Chinese and Japanese East Asianism must consider the role of the US, thus the complexity of analysis will be increased.