U.S-Japan Relations towards the "East Asia Economic Area"

第二轮美国-立命馆合作研讨会的最后一年对IIRAS具有重要意义，因为立命馆大学国际关系研究生院在1994年通过我们与美国大学SIS的特殊关系成功地成为APSIA的第一个外国成员。去年的研讨会在美国大学举行，主题是“美日韩合作网络框架下的21世纪国际关系与发展”，首尔的韩国大学也参与了立命馆-美国联合项目的合作。三所大学现在期望开始第三轮联合研讨会，我们可以在即将于1997年在汉城举行的IPSA大会上联合组织小组讨论。这是理所当然的，因为美国大学和立命馆大学参加了前四届ISA公约。除了我们的参与，应该指出的是，我们开始第二轮项目的前一年是在立命馆举行的IPRA大会年，美国前总统卡特的两位秘书从朝鲜回来的路上参加了这次会议。由于吉米·卡特本人在1993年宣布“日本海时代”即将到来后，他本人可以在1994年访问朝鲜，因此成为美朝关系的开端。我们两轮六次研讨会的结果是评估我们的联合项目是在没有道路的土地上准备一条新路(安德鲁·杨)。我们的联合项目完全是相关的对美朝关系新维度的分析。我们共同希望开始第三轮研讨会的客观评价支持，在1995年的ISA芝加哥公约中，古贺由纪子的论文《在IR/IPE理论中寻找一个人的空间》的创造性内容获得了一等奖。

The last year in the second round of American-Ritsumeikan cooperative symposia was significant for the IIRAS in the sense that the Graduate School of International Relations of Ritsumeikan University was successful to become the first foreign member of the APSIA in 1994 by our special relations with SIS) of American University. The last year symposium was held in American University and its main theme was "The 21th Century IR and Development in the Framework of the US-Japan-ROK Cooperative Network" for which Korea University in Seoul also participated in cooperation with Ritsumeikan-American joint project. It is now expected by three universities that the third round of joint symposia should be started and we could jointly organize panels in the coming IPSA Congress which would be held in Seoul in 1997. This is natural in the sense that American University and Ritsumeikan University participatid in the previous four ISA Conventions.In addition to our participations, it should be noted that the year before our start of the second round project was the year of IPRA Congress held in Ritsumeikan and the ex-US President Carter's two secretaries participated in the Congress in their way back from DPRK.It has become the start of the US-Korean Relations because Jimmy Carter himself could visit to DPRK in 1994 after he himself declared in 1993 that "the Age of the Sea of Japan" is coming.Our two rounds of six symposia resulted in evaluation to characterize our joint projects as preparing a new road in the roadless land (Andrew Young).Our joint project is totally related to the analysis of the new dimensions of the US-Korean Relations.Our joint hopes to start third round symposia are supported by the objective evaluation that in the ISA Chicago Convention in 1995, Yukiko Koga's paper "In Search of a People's Space in IR/IPE Theory" could get the first prize on its creative contents.