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

该项目的目的不仅是为基于原始资料的冷战历史研究做出贡献，而且通过探索和研究与冷战和同盟有关的主要问题，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的结构和性质进行实证和历史考察，试图阐明冷战期间和冷战后世界秩序的连续性和间断性，从而为理解现有世界提供重要的发现。其次，通过从比较的角度考察欧洲和亚洲的冷战联盟关系，并利用第一手资料，该研究能够提出相关和有用的发现，以了解冷战和冷战后的联盟和问题，特别是美日泛安全条约体系及其对美日关系和日本外交的影响。第三，通过对联盟的文化、社会和意识形态基础的分析，我们可以揭示联盟关系中未被探索的方面，从而为冷战历史研究以及理解冷战期间和之后的联盟做出独特的贡献。

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.