The Further Development of Asian Regionalism: Institutional Hedging in an Uncertain Era
The Further Development of Asian Regionalism: Institutional Hedging in an Uncertain Era
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亚洲地区主义的进一步发展：不确定时代的制度对冲
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10.1080/24761028.2019.1688905
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2019
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Mie
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Oba;Mie
目前，美国和中国这两个全球巨人在贸易和技术进步以及国际政治霸权方面的对抗正在升级。中美经济“战争”或所谓“新冷战”的可能性，不仅预示着这种对抗的升级，而且预示着国际秩序的转型，这是力量对比的变化和美国主导的国际自由秩序挑战者的崛起的结果。大多数国际关系专家关注这一对抗的前景及其不确定的全球环境，并关注其对东亚/亚太地区环境的影响。其中，亚洲地区主义和地区机构的前景似乎令人悲观。然而，随着美国的衰落和中国作为世界大国的崛起，亚洲地区主义开始活跃，国际自由秩序的倒退在2000年代末开始显现。此外，即使在中美对抗造成的不确定局势下，包括中国、日本和东盟（ASEAN）在内的地区大国也在通过提出和推进各种地区框架来推动其多边途径。这表明，各地区大国正在采取“制度对冲”战略，以确保各自的利益得到满足，地区秩序对自己有利。本文证实了地区主义和地区制度已经成为各国克服地区不确定性开始带来的挑战的制度对冲战略的重要地区权力衡量标准，亚洲地区主义今天比以往任何时候都更加活跃。
Currently, the confrontation between two global giants, the United States and China, in trade and technology advancement and hegemony in international politics is escalating. The possibility of a Sino-U.S. economic “war,” or the so-called “new Cold War,” not only indicates the escalation of this confrontation but also symptomizes the international order’s transformation as a result of the change in power balance and rise of a challenger against the existing United States–led international liberal order. Most IR specialists focus on the prospects of this confrontation and its uncertain worldwide circumstances and are concerned about its impact on East Asian/Asia Pacific regional circumstances. Among them, prospects regarding regionalism and regional institutions in Asia seem pessimistic. However, Asian regionalism was activated following the decline in United States’ power and rise of China as a global power, and the international liberal order’s retreat became visible toward the end of the 2000s. Furthermore, even under the uncertain situations created by the Sino-U.S. confrontation, regional powers, including China, Japan, and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), are promoting their multilateral approach by proposing and advancing various regional frameworks. This indicates that each regional power is adopting the “institutional hedging” strategy to ensure that their individual interests are satisfied and the regional order is comfortable for themselves. This paper verifies that regionalism and regional institutions have become important as measures of regional power for countries’ institutional hedging strategies to overcome the challenges posed by the beginning of regional uncertainties and that Asian regionalism is more active today than ever before.