Comparison of Law and Politics at Local Level in North-east Asia

研究的目的是比较和规范的未来期望的地方实体，特别是城市作为新出现的国际行为体后，冷战结构崩溃的地方区域管理。在为期两年的研究中，我们在第一年收集了有关该主题的材料并进行了分析，在第二年集中进行了规范性和政策性研究，并听取了专家的意见。结果，我们得出结论，地方实体的多元化网络将是该地区未来的最重要因素之一。考虑到世界民族国家结构的变化，对地方主义、地方自治、地方分权等概念的澄清将是我们研究的下一个课题。

The purpose of the research is comparison and normative future expectation of management of local area by local entities, especially municipalities as newly emerging international actors after the collapse of cold war structure. During the two years research term, we collected materials concerning the topic and analyzed them in the first year, and concentrated in normative and policly studies including hearing from experts in the second year.As a results we concluded that plural network by local entities will be one of the most important factors to the future of the area. The right to perform diplomacy by municipalities should be took into consideration is another conclusion.Considering the change of nation-states-structure of the world, to make clarification among such concepts as localism, local autonomy and decentralization will be the next topic of our research.