Governance Change in Okinawa : Regional Autonomy and Globalization

冷战结束后，所谓的“全球化”成为国际关系和世界状况的代名词。全球化意味着全球多样性。我们想把重点放在经济相互依存所促进的区域化和区域一体化上，因为今天的区域化是一种与全球化深刻相关的现象。另一方面，全球化和国际区域化对各民族国家内部的国家治理和次国家层面的区域治理产生了强烈影响。政府系统正在发生民主化、权力下放和放松管制，现在“治理”一词成为描述工业化国家目前占主导地位的政治制度的词。研究重点是东亚相互依存下国家和区域治理的变化，以及变化对国家治理的影响，东亚区域治理与全球化。以美国为主导的经济和军事全球化是90年代的大趋势。八国集团首脑会议计划在冲绳举行，是为了将冲绳确定为这一趋势的基石。相反，反美主导的全球主义也全球化了。冲绳的公民社会也变得全球化了。一个全球性的公民社会正在崛起。冲绳的政治必须放在全球背景下分析。冲绳政府的变革必须由冲绳人民来重塑。换句话说，发展更民主的治理是不可避免的。

After the end of the cold war, so-called "globalization" became the term presents the state of the international relations and the world. Globalization implies global diversity.We would like to focus on the regionalization and regional integration facilitated by economic interdependence, because today's regionalization is a phenomenon which profoundly related to the globalization.On The other hand, globalization and international regionalization made a strong impact on the national governance and sub-national revel : regional governance within each nation-state. Democratization, decentralization and deregulation are taking place the government systems and now the term "'Governance" became the word for describing currently dominant political systems in the industrialized countries.The research focus on the changes of the national and regional governance under interdependence in East Asia, and also focus on the impact of changes on the national governance, and on the East Asian regional governance and Globalization.Economic and military globalization dominated by America was the big trend in the 90's. The G8 Summit was planned to be held in Okinawa in order to define Okinawa as a keystone of this trend. On the contrary, Anti-American-led-globalism also became globalized. Okinawan civil society became globalized too. A global civil society is rising. Okinawan politics have to be analyzed in this global context. And changes of governance of Okinawa have to be reshaped, more by the Okinawan people. In other words, development of more democratic governance is inevitable.