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

本研究考察并比较了旨在实现东亚区域合作的制度建设过程。本报告以环境、贸易、食品、能源四个政策领域为中心，考察了日本、中国、韩国、东盟四个行动者如何实现创建地区机构、维持地区相对影响力的集体利益这一共同目标，以及非国家行动者如何通过跨国网络影响地区治理的形成，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。实证分析的比较研究被汇编成一本单独撰写的书，由一家英国出版社出版。

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.