Research on the promotion of functional cooperation and formation of regional governance in East Asia

本研究考察并比较了东亚区域合作制度建设的过程。它侧重于环境、贸易、食品和能源四个政策领域，并研究了四个参与者——日本、中国、韩国和东盟——如何追求实现创建区域机构和保持在该地区相对影响力的集体利益的相互交织的目标，非国家行为体如何通过跨国网络影响区域治理的形成，以及在全球危机形成的“关键时刻”，区域机构的形成是如何进行的。将实证分析的比较研究整理成一本书，由英国出版社出版。

This research investigated and compared the process of building institutions designed to materialize regional cooperation in East Asia. It focused on four policy fields of environment, trade, food, and energy, and examined how four actors -- Japan, China, South Korea, and ASEAN -- have pursued twined objectives of realizing collective interests of creating regional institutions and maintaining relative influence in the region, how non-state actors have influenced the formation of regional governance through transnational networks, and how the formation of regional institutions have proceeded at 'critical junctures' formed by global crises. The comparative research of empirical analyses was assembled into a single-authored book, which was released by an English publisher.