Asian Economic Dynamism and New Asia-Pacific Economic Order : Post-Cold war US-Japan Relations and New Regionalism

本项目的主要目的是研究以下几点：(1)亚洲经济增长与太平洋两岸经济区域主义形成的相互作用：(2)亚洲动态增长过程中新型区域贸易、投资和货币政策的发展；(3)太平洋地区区域经济发展对传统美日政治经济关系的互动效应我们考察了亚洲经济增长对太平洋地区传统经济、金融机制和秩序的影响，包括美日经济关系，以及第一年(1993年)亚太区域经济发展的问题和前景。第二年，我们从亚洲的角度对“亚太区域发展与美日经济关系”进行了调查，并在研究的过程中，与朱拉隆功大学的工作人员合作，成功地举办了曼谷研讨会。最后，我们在1995年与东西方中心一起举办了题为《亚洲的经济增长、社会经济变化和团结主义》的夏威夷研讨会。目前已有两个与项目相关的出版物：亚洲经济活力和亚太经济新秩序；冷战后的美日经济关系新地区主义(英文)和跨国公司在亚洲的外国直接投资和日元国际化(日文)。我们还将出版一本关于经济增长、社会经济变化、亚洲地区主义及其对美日关系的影响的英文版新书。

The main purposes of this project are to study on the following points :(1) interactions between Asian economic growth and formation of the economic regionalism on the both side of the Pacific Ocean ;(2) development of new types of regional trade, investment and monetary policies in the process of Asian dynamic growth ;(3) interactive effects of regional economic development in the Pacific region to the traditional U.S.-Japan political and economic relations.We made search of effects of Asian growth to the traditional economic, financial mechanism and/or orders in the Pacific region, including U.S.-Japan economic relations, and issues and prospects of Asia-Pacific regional economic development in the first year (1993). In the second year, we investigated "Asia-Pacific regional development and U.S.-Japan economic relations "from the viewpoints of Asia, and, on the way of the research, held the succesful Bangkok workshop in cooperation the staff members of Chulalongkorn University. Finally, we had the Hawaii workshop entitled "economic growth, socio-economic changes, and reionalism in Asia" with reference to U.S.-Japan political and economic relations together with the East-West Center in 1995.There have already two project-related publications : Asian Economic Dynamism and New Asia-Pacific Economic Order ; Post-cold war U.S.-Japan economic relations an new regionalism (in English) and MNCs' Foreign Direct Investment in Asia and Internationalization of Japnese Yen (in Japansese) edited by S.Tokunaga. We will also publish a new English-version book on economic growth, socio-economic changes, and regionalism in Asia and therir impacts on U.S.Japan relations.