The End of Cold War in Europe : its Process and Impact.

本研究的目的是（1）描述欧洲冷战结束的过程，（2）分析这一变化对欧洲国家政治的影响。高桥以德国的统一为中心，描述了冷战结束的过程。他写了一本关于这个主题的书，其中有许多文件现在可以找到。这本书将于1999年出版。BABA研究了冷战结束对意大利政治制度的影响。他专注于20世纪90年代初从“第一共和国”到“第二共和国”的政权更迭过程。他的研究成果将由他自己编辑成书出版。平岛提出了冷战结束后欧盟一体化进程加快的“民主赤字”问题。对研究结果进行了验证.中山从历史的角度分析了冷战结束对法国政治的影响。由于法国政治文化的独特性和稳定性，要揭示其政治的变迁，需要一个长期的历史视角。研究结果将于1999年3月发表。这项研究包括了一些最初没有计划的主题，但总体上有价值的结果。

The object of this project is (1) to describe the process of the end of Cold War in Europe, and (2) to analyze the impact of that change on the politics of European countries.The results are the following :1. TAKAHASHI described the process of the end of Cold War focusing on the German Unification. He wrote a book on this theme with many documents that are now available. This book will be published in 1999.2. BABA researched the effect of the end of Cold War on the Italian political regime. He concentrated on the process of regime change from the "1st Republic" to the "2nd Republic" in early 1990s. His research findings will, be published as the book in the editorship of himself.3. HIRASHIMA took up the problem on the "democratic deficit" of European Union, whose integration process has been accelerated after the end of Cold War. The research result has been published.4. NAKAYAMA analyzed the impact of the end of Cold War on the French Politics from long historical, perspective. Since French political culture is quite particular and stable, it is long historical perspective that is need to bring out the change of its politics. The result will be published by March 1999.This research has included some themes that were not planned on the beginning, but has valuable results as a whole.