New Development of Southeast Asian Local Politics in the Era of Globalization : Capital City, Energy and the Border研究代表者岡本正明(Okamoto Masaaki)

东南亚国家在1997年克服了冷战后的亚洲经济危机，随着全球商业和/或意识形态网络的扩大，经历了快速的社会、政治和经济转型。从这项研究中可以清楚地看到，东南亚地方一级出现了新型的政治经济行为者或采用新政治风格的政治行为者。对于新下放权力的泰国、菲律宾和印度尼西亚来说，情况尤其如此，在这些地方，地方首长获得了更广泛的权力。全球化和信息时代给他们提供了获得包括信息在内的新的政治和经济资源的机会，并形成了夺取和维持其政治权力的新的、更聪明的方式。

Southeast Asian countries have overcome the post-cold war Asian economic crisis in 1997 and have been experiencing the rapid social, political and economic transformation with the expansion of global business and/or ideological networks. One thing that is clear from this research is the fact that Southeast Asian local level has seen the emergence of new type of politico-economic actors or the political actors that employ new political style. It is especially true for newly decentralized Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia where the local heads have obtained a wider authority. The era of globalization and information gave them chances of gaining new political and economic resources including information and fashioning new and smarter way of grabbing and maintaining their political power.