Comparing Nationalism and Citizenship of the U.S.And Japan

20世纪90年代后期，围绕美日的国际政治格局的主要特征是冷战后政治理念的重构和全球化的加速，不仅是全球中心外部的全球化，也是全球中心国内社会内部的全球化。鉴于这种政治背景，日本项目组成员和罗格斯大学的成员都认为有必要重新审视民族主义和公民身份的性质，最好是在一个比较框架内。在这一主题下，我们在美国和日本举办了六次研讨会，从历史、政治、法律和文化角度分析和辩论美国和日本的民族主义和公民身份。这些论文被出版为民族主义和公民身份I，II，III和IV（大坂：JCAS，2000和2001）。日本成员还进行了为期三年的实地研究，追求他们的每一个主题。为了整合所有这些活动， 关于我们 2001年11月举行了题为“全球化时代的'我们人民'”的国家研讨会，在此基础上发表了14篇论文并进行了深入的讨论。内部全球化给美日社会提出了共同的挑战，即如何在非少数民族群体的政治效能很低的情况下，保持政治共同体的完整性，如何重振公民权。通过对法律的制度、少数民族活动、民间社会组织（包括NGO/NPO）的个案研究，找到了答案。全球化和民族主义复兴可以同时进行的基本认识不仅通过案例研究得到了确认，而且通过美国和日本在真实的时间发生的事情得到了确认：即9-11恐怖主义和围绕教科书重写的运动。很明显，民族主义是通过使用每个社会所基于的价值观和思想来提升的。三年实地考察的记录制成附件。整个项目的调查结果将在《全球时代》（大坂; JCAS）上以“我们人民“的名义出版，日文的书籍出版物也即将出版。少

The international political situation surrounding the United States and Japan in the late 1990s was characterized by the reconstruction of political ideas in the post-Cold War setting and the accelerating globalization not only from the global centers outside, but even inside of the global centers' domestic societies. Given such political context, members of Japanese project team and those of Rutgers University shared the need to re-examine the nature of nationalism and citizenship, desirably in a comparative framework. Under this theme, we conducted six workshops both in the United States and Japan, analyzing and debating the cases of American and Japanese nationalism and citizenship, historically, politically, legally and culturally. The papers were published as Nationalism and Citizenship I, II, III, and IV(Osaka : JCAS, 2000 and 2001). The Japanese members also conducted field research for three years pursuing each of their topics. To incorporate all of these activities, an interna … More tional symposium "'We the People' in a Global Age" was held in November 2001, with fourteen papers and intensive discussion based on them. Internal globalization has raised the common challenge for both U.S. and Japanese societies, namely how to maintain the integrity of political community and how to re-vitalize citizenship when the political efficacy is very low even among non-minority population. Case studies on legal system, ethnic groups' activities, civil society organizations including NGO/NPOs are conducted to find the answer. The fundamental understanding that globalization and resurgence of nationalism can proceed simultaneously is re-assured not only through the case studies, but what were happening in real time in the United States and Japan : namely 9-11 terrorism and the movement surrounding textbook rewriting. It also became clear that nationalism is uplifted by using the very values and ideas upon which each of the societiesisbased. The record of three-year field research is made into an attached publication. Findings from the over-all project will be published as "We the People " in Global Age (Osaka ; JCAS), and a book-form publication in Japanese is also forthcoming. Less