A Comprehensive Study of the Transformation of the Cold War andAlliances ? A Perspective from the End of the Cold War

该项目不仅旨在根据原始资料对冷战历史的研究做出贡献，而且还通过探索和研究有关冷战和联盟的主要问题，为更好地理解日本外交提供相关和有用的发现，这些问题仍然是理解冷战后世界的决定性因素。首先，通过对冷战时期世界政治结构和性质的实证和历史考察，揭示冷战时期和冷战后世界秩序的连续性和间断性，为理解当今世界提供重要的发现。第二，从比较的角度，利用第一手资料，对冷战时期欧洲和亚洲的同盟关系进行了考察，为理解冷战时期和冷战后的同盟关系和问题，特别是美日泛安保条约体系及其对美日关系和日本外交的影响，提供了相关的、有用的研究结果。第三，通过对联盟的文化、社会和意识形态基础这一以往联盟研究中被忽视的领域的分析，可以揭示联盟关系中未被探索的方面，从而为冷战的历史研究以及对冷战中和冷战后联盟的理解做出独特的贡献。

The project intended to make contribution not only to the study of the Cold War history based on primary sources but also to provide relevant and useful findings for better understanding of Japanese diplomacy by exploring and examining major problems concerning the Cold War and alliances, still the defining factors in understanding the post-Cold War world. First, by putting to empirical and historical examination the structure and nature of world politics during the Cold War period, the research tried to illuminate the continuity and discontinuity of the world order during and after the Cold War, thereby offering significant findings for understanding the existing world. Second, by examining Cold War alliance relationships both in Europe and Asia from a comparative perspective and through use of primary sources, the research was able to come up with relevant and useful findings for understanding both Cold War and post-Cold War alliances and problems, especially those of the US-J pan security treaty system and their implications for US-Japan relations and Japanese diplomacy. Third, by focusing our analysis on the cultural, social and ideological foundation of the alliances, largely neglected niches in the past alliance studies, we could shed light on unexplored aspects of the alliance relationships, thereby making unique contribution to the historical study of the Cold War as well as understanding alliances during and after the Cold War.