Globalization and Universalism in Regions : A Link to the 21st Century

1.该项目是科比大学（法学系、国际合作研究生院）与英国谢菲尔德大学（东亚研究生院、政治学系）之间的国际学术交流项目之一。在两次联合研讨会（1997年在英国和1998年在科比）之后，我们于2000年1月7日至8日在谢菲尔德大学举行了国际研讨会。除了来自两所大学的与会者外，许多学者（来自沃里克大学、利兹大学、东京大学等）也参加了研讨会。2.三年期项目的研讨会论文被收录在题为“区域的全球化和普遍性：与21世纪的联系”的报告中。“从这个项目中，我们得到了以下知识。（1）国际关系确实正在发展到与中世纪大致相似的新阶段。（2）国际上许多地区都存在着区域化现象。（3）日本也是区域化的开端。（4）展望21世纪的国际关系将是国家间关系、区域化和全球化的多层次互动。（3）今后将把科比大学与谢菲尔德大学的学术交流作为日英国际学术交流的核心之一加以发展。该项目是其重要基础。

1.This project was one of the international academic interchanges between Kobe University(Faculty of Law and Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies) and University of Sheffield, UK(Graduate School of East Asian Studies and Department of Politics). After two joint seminars (in UK, 1997, and in Kobe, 1998), we held the international seminar at Sheffield University, 7-8 January 2000. Beside the participants from both universities, many academicians (from University of Warwick, University of Leeds, University of Tokyo, and the like) participated in the seminar.2.The seminars' papers of the three years' project were included in the report, "Globalization and Universalism in Region : A Link to the 21st Century." From the project, we got knowledges as follows.(1)International relations are surely developing into the new phases which roughly resemble that of the medieval age.(2)The regionalization is observed in many international regions.(3)The beginning of the regionalization can be found in Japan, too.(4)International relations in the 21st century are anticipated as the multilevel interaction between relations among the states, regionalization and globalization.3.We will develop the academic interchange between Kobe University and University of Sheffield as one of the cores of international academic interchange between Japan and UK, in the future. This project is the important basis for it.