Research Themes

• Cooperation and Conflict over International Rivers: Interdisciplinary Study on the Formation and Implementation of Norms and Conflict Structure
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  01 Apr. 2024 - 31 Mar. 2029
  地田 徹朗, 山田 哲也, 星野 昌裕, 岩下 明裕, 都留 康子, 岡松 暁子, 大八木 英夫, 篭橋 一輝
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, 24H00141
• Representations of "Territory" and Social Transformation in Northeast Asia
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  01 Apr. 2020 - 31 Mar. 2025
  岩下 明裕, 福原 裕二, BOYLE EDWARD, 黒岩 幸子, 益尾 知佐子
  本研究では、ユーラシアや諸外国の事例を参考にしつつ、北東アジアに関わる国境・領土をめぐる社会構築と実態の連関を、時系列と地理スケールを変えることを通じナショナルとローカルのフレームにおいて析出する。
  ローカルとは境界に接する自治体レベルの場合もあれば、国境点（まち）そのものもあり、スケールは伸縮される。フレームの相互作用を検証し、領土をめぐる社会構築が、ある場合にはナショナリズムの激化と相関し、ある場合にはこれを鎮静化させる二面性パターンを解析する。国境を越えるローカルな場からの「メッセージ」を学術的に総合し、領土をめぐる社会構築を相対化し乗り越える道筋をつくるのが本研究の狙いである。
  空間や境界をめぐる諸問題を学際的に研究するボーダースタディーズ（境界研究）の理論と枠組をもとに、本研究では北東アジア地域の「領土」（領海、領空、経済水域などを含む）をめぐる表象を実態との連関において検証する。争点化されている空間をめぐる対象は、ロシア、中国、韓国（北朝鮮）、日本など北東アジア地域の構成国の社会的な表象の構築の分析を中心とするが、域外の諸地域・諸国などにも目配りし、比較を通じて、それぞれの「領土」に関わる実態と表象の特性を明確にする。かかる作業を通じて境界地域を安定と平和の表象に転換するための諸策を世界的研究の文脈のなかで再構築する。
  なお、昨今のコロナ禍の世界的な広がりは、ナショナルとローカルのフレームを大きく揺さぶりつつあり、当該研究テーマたる国家や領土を分析する際、実態においても社会構築においても考慮せざるをない影響力をもつ。本研究はこれらについても目配りしつつ、地域の変貌を追跡する。
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 23K20141
• Representations of "Territory" and Social Transformation in Northeast Asia
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  01 Apr. 2020 - 31 Mar. 2025
  岩下 明裕, 福原 裕二, BOYLE EDWARD, 黒岩 幸子, 益尾 知佐子
  本研究では、ユーラシアや諸外国の事例を参考にしつつ、北東アジアに関わる国境・領土をめぐる社会構築と実態の連関を、時系列と地理スケールを変えることを通じナショナルとローカルのフレームにおいて析出する。
  ローカルとは境界に接する自治体レベルの場合もあれば、国境点（まち）そのものもあり、スケールは伸縮される。フレームの相互作用を検証し、領土をめぐる社会構築が、ある場合にはナショナリズムの激化と相関し、ある場合にはこれを鎮静化させる二面性パターンを解析する。国境を越えるローカルな場からの「メッセージ」を学術的に総合し、領土をめぐる社会構築を相対化し乗り越える道筋をつくるのが本研究の狙いである。
  空間や境界をめぐる諸問題を学際的に研究するボーダースタディーズ（境界研究）の理論と枠組をもとに、本研究では北東アジア地域の「領土」（領海、領空、経済水域などを含む）をめぐる表象を実態との連関において検証する。
  争点化されている空間をめぐる対象は、ロシア、中国、韓国（北朝鮮）、日本など北東アジア地域の構成国の社会的な表象の構築の分析を中心とするが、域外の諸地域・諸国などにも目配りし、比較を通じて、それぞれの「領土」に関わる実態と表象の特性を明確にする。かかる作業を通じて境界地域を安定と平和の表象に転換するための諸策を世界的研究の文脈のなかで再構築する。
  なお、昨今のコロナ禍の世界的な広がりは、ナショナルとローカルのフレームを大きく揺さぶりつつあり、当該研究テーマたる国家や領土を分析する際、実態においても社会構築においても考慮せざるをない影響力をもつ。本研究はこれらについても目配りしつつ、地域の変貌を追跡する。
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 20H01460
• Multi-Archival Analysis of Critical Junctures in Post-war Northeast Asia
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2024
  Wolff David, 李 鍾元, 岩下 明裕, 泉川 泰博, 楠 綾子, 井上 正也, 松本 はる香
  On October 15-18, 2021 a workshop on “Japan and the Korean Peninsula in the Cold War” was sponsored by Kaken A and held at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies of Waseda University. Papers were prepared and presented by scholars from South Korea, the PRC and Japan, covering a range of topics concentrated in the second half of the Cold War.
  
  
  Cross-archival research made possible the connection of various initiatives not usually studied together. During the detente era, the Nixon opening to China brought on a brief period of relaxation on the Korean peninsula, as well as Japan’s outreach to China. The end of the Vietnamese war brought an end to this hiatus as Kim Il Sung prepared to turn the tide agains the “imperialists” in Asia. A few years later, Carter’s plan to withdraw US troops from South Korea also had implications and connections to Japan. Finally, the shifts of perestroika revealed a fluid conjuncture where, in Northeast Asia, the Korean peninsula was the focal point of new relations and missed opportunities. But the promise of Seoul’s Nordpolitik was never fully met, since it produced an opening to the USSR, but not to North Korea, the ultimate objective.
  
  
  A sponsored panel at the International Studies Association Convention went further to include analysis of all members of the incipient Quad, including India and Australia.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, 19H00575
• Chinese Cross-border Consumption in Northeast Asia: Impact on Economy and Politics
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  10 Nov. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2020
  岩下 明裕, PULFORD EDWARD
  今年度はこれまでの研究成果をもとに研究報告を１つ、その他、業績にある論文、書籍などを刊行した。
  なお当該研究の概要であるが、本プロジェクトの成果の最大の特徴は、当該テーマの分析に際し、人類学的な手法を用いることにある。北東アジアの国境地域は、ロシア人、中国人、北朝鮮人、少数民族などが交錯する場としてよく知られているが、消費行動という研究テーマにおいては多くが経済学的な統計処理による分析、あるいは企業アクターなどを注視した経営学的な解析、移民の移動に焦点をあてた社会学的な分析が主たるものであった。消費行動についてひとりひとりのきめ細かいフォローと彼らの有するフィジカルかつメンタルな実態を明らかにしようとするアプローチは旧来にないものであり、その成果が上記論文及び国際会議において発信されている。
  さらに付言すれば、プルフォード氏の研究のテーマは、「北東アジア」と「国境」をテーマとしており、これは私が主宰する人間文化研究機構（NIHU）地域研究推進事業北海道大学スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター拠点の学術活動及び境界研究ユニット（UBRJ）の諸研究と合致するものでもあった。とくに北東アジアというスケールでの中国人の越境性と、にもかかわらず中国的な特色ある行動性の両面へ目配りする研究は、境界研究（ボーダースタディーズ）の観点からも興味深く、センター滞在中には日本全国で開催されたセミナーや研究会などで数多くの報告をすることとなった。
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Hokkaido University, 17F17739
• Comparative Study on Border Tourism in East Asia: Changing Society in Border Regions and its Impact on International Relations with Neighboring States
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  01 Apr. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2020
  Hanamatsu Yasunori
  Border tourism is promoted by borderlands (border regions) that take advantage of geographical proximity, mutual intimacy, political, economic and cultural “unfamiliarity” while being influenced by intergovernmental relations. Human interaction with tourists from neighboring countries brought by border tourism usually promotes the simultaneous interaction of de-bounding, re-bounding, and neo-bordering processes. In addition, the impact of border tourism on neighboring countries’ relations is an issue that needs to be clarified in the future when the basic condition for border tourism has been lost due to the deterioration of Japan-South Korea relations, Covid-19, and the Ukrainian War.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 17H02491
• Borders in Global Relations
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  01 Apr. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2019
  岩下 明裕
  本研究は、グローバル化に関する諸問題を地域横断的に多様なディシプリンを用いて行うのみならず、境界を越え、世界規模で起きる現象の追跡と分析に目配りしつつも、重層的なグローバル化のもとで、絶えず消失し、再生される空間及び人と人の相関における領域化や境界付けを総合的に把握しようとするものである。本研究では、一見グローバル化とはネガの関係に見えるボーダー（境界）の問題群がグローバル化とコインの表裏の関係であることを前提に、旧来の研究視座では読み解くことのできない問題群と本質を逆照射し、かつ実践的な解析や対応策を見出そうと努めようとする。１）アジア・ユーラシアの境界事象（再領域化・囲い込み）とグローバル化した世界の相関を分析し、２）グローバル化するborderization とtrans-borderizationの相関を地域間比較によって試み、３）グローバル化と境界問題の理論的総合を目指す、という課題設定がそれである。
  最終年度にあたる平成30年度は上記の設定にかんがみ、本新学術領域研究で展開されている諸研究を鳥瞰し、当該研究成果の発信に努めた。Association for borderlands Studiesの第2回世界大会（ウィーン、ブタペスト）、世界政治学会（IPSA)（ブリスベン）などで政界の報告を行い、また福岡で開催された世界社会科学フォーラム（WSSF)で複数のパネルを組織した。成果の共有のために、モスクワ、ヘルシンキ、バーミンガム、ワシントンDC,シアトル、サンディエゴで関係する研究者と学術交流を行った。
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Kyushu University, 17H05120
• New Developments in Sino-Russian Relations: Comprehensive Research on Strategic Partnership
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2019
  Wolff David
  This research project collected data on areas of Russo-Chinese cooperation and friction in order to evaluate the chances for rapprochement or even alliance in the next ten years under the Putin and Xi leaderships. In coordination with the National Institute for the Humanities Northeast Asia project, a symposium was held in Sapporo in summer 2018 on “Northeast Asia’s Faultline: One Hundred Years of Sino/Russian/Soviet Competitive Cooperation.” Papers are being edited for a special issue of Eurasian Border Review.
  The most important analytical result of this project is the conclusion that despite China’s caution about getting too close to Russia, Moscow’s steady support on key issues has led, in a very short time, to the US shift from thinking of Russia as the main enemy to a new and unfriendly focus on China. Although China appears to hold the strong hand, Russia’s long-term interest of pitting the US against the PRC has made progress.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 15H03319
• The Transformation of Political Space and Prospects for New Governance in the Contemporary Phase of Globalization
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2018
  Yamazaki Takashi, IWASHITA Akihiro, SAKIHAMA Yasushi, FUKUMOTO Taku
  Upon a 'new' stage of globalization, this research project has grasped the transformation of political spaces, explored various movements and practices to reconstruct political subjects, and attempted to establish political geographies for the prospect of new governance models. On the basis of activities of the Political Geography Research Group of the Human Geographical Society of Japan, this project has hold eleven sponsored/co-sponsored public meetings (including two lectures given by an international guest speaker) and three international meetings in China and Korea. Some of the research outcomes have been published in Masashi Sato and Yosuke Maeda eds. "Local Governance and Region" (Nakanishiya, 2017) and will be published in "The Dictionary of New Geopolitics" (Maruzen, scheduled in 2019). Through the above-mentioned activities so that this project has contributed to the spread of theories, methodologies, and practicability of new political geography to the public.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Osaka City University, 15H03277
• Reconstructing International Relations through Border Studies
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2018
  IWASHITA Akihiro, KAWAKUBO Fuminori, YAMAZAKI Takashi, YAMANE So, CHIDA Tetsuro, HANAMATSU Yasunori
  This research project has sought to move beyond the analytical methods used in international relations by focussing on the fundamental factors that define international relations, and to establish a new way of studying political geography that is based on the spheres of daily activity of people living in border regions.
  The project has been publicized abroad through panels organized annually with overseas researchers, and through publication in the Principal Investigator’s Introduction to Border Studies: territory, sovereignty, ideology (Chuko Shinsho-in Japanese), and Japan’s Border Issues: Pitfalls and Prospects (Routledge). Regarding border tourism, it has opened new ground for the field.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, 26245018
• General Overview of "Comparative Research on Major Regional Powers in Eurasia"
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  13 Nov. 2008 - 31 Mar. 2014
  TABATA Shinichiro, TANG Liang, IWASHITA Akihiro, UYAMA Tomohiko, UEGAKI Akira, YAMANE So, MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo, MATSUZATO Kimitaka, NAGANAWA Norihiro
  １．新学術領域研究「ユーラシア地域大国の比較研究」の日本語での成果は，ミネルヴァ書房から全６巻のシリーズとして刊行される予定であり，平成24年度に２巻発行していたが，平成25年度にも岩下明裕編『ユーラシア国際秩序の再編』と望月哲男編『ユーラシア地域大国の文化表象』の２巻を刊行した。
  ２．本新学術領域研究の英語での成果は，Routledge社から田畑伸一郎を編者とし，Eurasia’s Regional Powers Compared - China, India, Russiaというタイトルで，全14章から成る本として刊行することが決まった。執筆者は本新学術領域研究の６つの計画研究の研究代表者，研究分担者などである。そのための原稿の執筆を行い，ほとんどの原稿が３月末までに提出された。
  ３．本新学術領域研究の成果を，日本，中国，韓国の研究者による第５回スラブ・ユーラシア研究東アジア学会（2013年8月9～10日，大阪法経大学）をはじめとするいくつかの学会等で報告することを支援した。
  ４．本新学術領域研究の成果を，経済の領域における成果を中心に，国立大学附置研究所・センター長会議第３部会シンポジウム「比較研究の愉しみ」（2013年10月4日，北海道大学）で発表した。
  ５．本新学術領域研究において2010年に行った国際シンポジウムの成果を，Comparative Studies on Regional Powers, No. 14として刊行した。また，本研究の支援を受けて実施された言語学の領域における研究の成果をSlavic Eurasian Studies, No. 26として刊行した。 ６．本新学術領域研究は，世界諸地域の研究に関わる研究組織、教育組織、学会などをつないで， 情報交換や研究活動を進めるネットワーク組織である地域研究コンソーシアムから，第３回（2013年度）地域研究コンソーシアム研究企画賞を受賞した。
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Hokkaido University, 20101001
• Northeast Asia in the Cold War: New Materials and Perspectives
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  2009 - 2012
  DAVID Wolff, AKITA Shigeru, IZUMIKAWA Yasuhiro, IWASHITA Akihiro, ENDO Ken, MATSUMOTO Haruka, YOKOTE Shinji, ROBERT Eldridge, KIM Sung-ho
  This Kaken has combined historians and political scientists to collect documents in and about Northeast Asia in the Cold War, especially Japan’s role and perspective. At workshops, conferences and international events, our members have made 80 presentations of new materials and conclusions during the last five years, more than half in English. The members made 70 publications during this period and many more will follow.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, 21243013
• Restructuring of the International Order
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  2008 - 2012
  IWASHITA Akihiro, ISHII Akira, ITO Toru, YOSHIDA Osamu, WOLFF David, NAKAI Yoshifumi
  The results of this research project was to analyze the influences that great powers in Eurasia such as Russia, China and India have on the international community, and to review the kind of new order that the international community will form with these regional powers. It did not simply look into the diplomatic strategies of those three countries, but also shed light on how the existing world order tackles the challenge offered by the Eurasian powers.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Hokkaido University, 20101002
• An Emerging New Eurasian Order : Russia, China and Their Interactions toward Neighbors
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  2006 - 2009
  IWASHITA Akihiro, UYAMA Tomohiko, OBIYA Chika, YOSHIDA Osamu, ARAI Yukiyasu, ISHII Akira, NAKANO Junzo, KIM Sung-ho, ARAI Nobuo
  The practical results of this study is, firstly, that it proposed the applicability of the "fifty-fifty," or the Sino-Russian way for resolving a disputed territory on the basis of mutual acceptance (in most cases, the territory is divided) to other cases such as in the dispute over the northern territories between Japan and Russian. Secondly, it concludes that the border cooperative body, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, among Russia, China and Central Asia, that has developed within the context of the wider Eurasian community including South/West Asia in collaboration with the US, EU and Japan could pose as a formation of a new order in this region. The theoretical results of this study is, firstly, that Russia and China-a kind of "great border powers," sharing borders with various neighbors-coordinate their foreign relations in different ways than non-border powers such as the US. Secondly, it also features that the Sino-Russian relations, regulated by the borderland and its dynamics, are far from the US-Sino and the US-Russian relations that are not affected by the border. Finally, the study verifies how the Eurasian quadrangle (the US-Russia-China-India) functions differently depending on whether the sub-components or triangles, namely the US-Russia-China, the US-China-India and Russia-China-India, share a border or not.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Hokkaido University, 18203009
• Unrecognized States in the Former Socialist Countries: multi-layered and Comparative Approaches
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  2005 - 2007
  MATSUZATO Kimitaka, MUTSUSHIKA Shigeo, HIROSE Yoko, MAEDA Hirotake, IWASHITA Akihiro
  In the academic year of 2005, we focused on domestic politics and political regimes of the unrecognized states, as well as on the issues in historiography, ethnic origins and the debate around "who began to inhabit first in the territory." We conducted fieldwork in Nagorno-Karabakh and other territories. In March 2006, we organized a seminar in Sapporo and Tokyo, inviting a historian from Transnistria.
  In the academic year of 2006, we examined how the issue of unrecognized states affected domestic politics of their former suzerains (Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Moldova). We conducted fieldwork in Abkhazia, Transnistria, and at the EU headquarter in Brussels. In February 2007, we organized a seminar on the aforementioned topic, inviting a political scientist from Germany. Moreover, we published a collection in Russian, titled "Historiographic Dialogue around Unrecognized States: Pridnestr, Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, South Ossetia, and Georgia."
  In the academic year of 2007, we concentrated our endeavor to publicize the research results internationally. We organized a panel at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in New Orleans, inviting specialists from England, Germany, and Mexico. We published a collection in Russian, titled "Transnistria in the Macroregional Context of the Black Sea Rims." This collection demonstrates the future direction of our collective research. Paying attention to the fact that all the post-Soviet unrecognized states emerged in the Black Sea Rims, we will analyze macro-regional backgrounds of this fact.
  During 2006-07, we conducted a contract research to collect biographic data of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 17330025
• Russo-Chinese Cooperation and Its Implications for Eurasian Security in the Post-Cold War Period
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  2003 - 2005
  IWASHITA Akihiro, ARAI Nobuo, ISHII Akira, NAKANO Junzo, YOSHIDA Osamu
  The contributors of this project consist of researchers in the following fields : Sino-Russian relations, Sino-Central Asian relations, Russo-Japanese relations, Russo-Korean relations, South Asian-Russo-Chinese relations, and Southeast Asian-Sino-Russian relations. The goal of this project was to analyze an emerging Eurasian regional dynamism based on bilateral and multilateral relations. Our team of contributors basically focused their attention on Sino-Russian relations, which have been played out in the heart of Eurasia, and evaluate how these relations affected other relations such as Russo-Japanese, Russo-Korean, Russo-Indian and so on.
  The major result of the project is that it clarified an interaction among those relations, particularly on border cooperation. For the time being, the success of Sino-Russian border relations is contagious : the challenges of the Sino-Russian border were eventually overcome, providing hope that other similar border challenges in Sino-Central and Sino-Southeast Asia can likewise be overcome. The methods adopted for stabilizing border security and finishing border demarcation in the former was applied to the latter. This method could (and should) eventually be applied to Russo-Japanese relations or Sino-Indian relations in near future. A new regional order in Eurasia is on the horizon, and it is one based on the cooperative framework hammered out during tense boarder negotiations between Russia and China.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 15330030
• Comprehensive Study on Integration of Russia into the World Economy
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  2001 - 2004
  TABATA Shinichiro, KUBONIWA Masaaki, UEGAKI Akira, NAKAMURA Yasushi, IWASHITA Akihiro, SUEZAWA Megumi
  This study revealed the key importance of the oil and natural gas in understanding the Russia's integration into the world economy through a thorough analysis of Russia's official statistics, including SNA (system of national accounts), input-output tables, balance of payments, flow of financial resources and budgetary statistics. Especially, we demonstrated for the first time in the world that profits generated in oil and gas sector were recorded in trade sector in Russia's statistics and they represented the sources for capital flights. We presented these results at the international symposium that we organized in Sapporo and also at panels in academic meetings in the US. These results were published in several international journals. Simultaneously, we investigated the soundness of the above-mentioned Russian statistics. These investigations were carried out as a joint work with statisticians of the Russia's statistical office, and results were also published in international journals.
  We put special emphasis on the role played by the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) organization in the process of Russia's integration into the world economy. We organized a group of scholars who studied the CIS from the standpoint of different disciplines such as international relations, securities, economics, politics, sociology and so on. Our contribution is a rather positive evaluation of the role of the CIS in these ten years after the collapse of the USSR, especially in the role of preventing large-scale international and domestic conflicts and of providing various opportunities for adjustment and negotiations. We published for the first time in Japan a book on the CIS and presented these ideas.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, 13303001
• Russo-Chinese Regional Cooperation and Northeast Asia in the Post-Cold War Period
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  2001 - 2002
  IWASHITA Akihiro
  This research project has been set up to examine issues of the border demarcation and the Chinese migration in the Russo-Chinese relations. The head investigator has tried with foreign advisers to collect a fact of the territorial troubles over the 4000 km border and explore how Russia and China dealt with and succesfully resolved it for both interests. The research project concludes that the border issues between Russia and China has much determined Russo-Chinese relations than international affairs around Northeast Asia.
  All of the fruits of this project were already publishes as "the Russo-Chinese Border 4000 km" (Kadokawa Shoten), and will be introduced to Russian, Chinese and other international academic associations.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 13620100
• 中国・ロシア関係と国境地域協力
  科学研究費助成事業
  1999 - 2000
  岩下 明裕
  東アジアの国際関係を分析する際にもっとも注目に値する、ポスト冷戦時代の中露関係を国境と地域協力をキーワードに読み解いた本研究は、2年にわたる国境地域の現地調査(沿海・ハバロフスク・チタのロシア側国境地域および黒龍江・吉林・内モンゴルの中国側国境地域)と一次資料を駆使した結果、内外において画期的な研究成果を生みだした。それは第1に中露関係全体がすでにモスクワ・北京の中央政府関係によるだけでなく、国境地域の具体的な関係によって規定されはじめていること、第2に国境地域の関係も地域差が拡大しており、チタ・内モンゴルのもっともよい協力モデルが沿海・吉林のもっとも悪いケースと対比され、前者が後者の関係に適用されることで中露関係は好転しうるとの結論を得たことである。
  個別の国境地域間協力の実態については、豊富な現地資料(国境の写真を含む)を盛り込むかたちで主に大学の紀要類に公表した(研究発表3・4)。とくにこれらの論文で指摘した中露間の係争地(領土問題)の詳細は、今回、内外で始めて明らかにされたものである。また地方間関係の分析の前提となるモスクワ・北京の中央政府関係の近況も看過することなく目配りした(研究発表5)。
  上記のように本研究は、内外でも未踏のものであるため、成果を世界に還元すべく積極的に発信を行ってきた。2000年度にはアメリカ(シアトル・ワシントンDC)およびロシア(ウラジオストク)で報告を行い、関連ペーパーをロシア語・英語で公刊した(研究発表1・2・6)。さらに本研究の成果の一部をハジバラ氏(山口県立大学大学院)の協力を得て中国語でも刊行した(研究発表 図書1)。
  日本学術振興会, 奨励研究(A), 山口県立大学, 11720054
• Changes of Regional Relations in East Central Europe
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  1996 - 1997
  HAYASHI Tadayuki, YATABE Junji, NAKAI Kazuo, NAGAYO Suzumu, IEDA Osamu, ITO Takayuki
  1) This study focuses on the changes of international relations in East Central Europe of post-communist era, in particular :
  (a) eastward expansion of NATO and/or the EU,
  (b) sub-regional cooperation (e.g.CEFTA) in Central Europe
  (c) bilateral relations (e.g.ethnic minority problems) in the region,
  (d) relations between foreign policy and domestic factors in each country.
  2) We had interviews with the persons in charge of this matter in the governments and political parties of the Central and East European countries and Russia..
  3) We collected materials on :
  (a) the parliamentary elections (June, 1996) and the Senate elections (November, 1996) in the Czech Republic ;
  (b) Referendum on accession to NATO in Slovakia (May, 1997)
  (c) the parliamentary elections in Poland (June, 1997)
  (d) Referendum on accession to NATO in Hungary (November, 1997)
  4) The main points of the study may be summarized as follows :
  (a) Although Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary have secured their position as the future members of NATO and the EU,there remain many domestic problems to be solved by the time they join in the organizations.
  (b) Slovak democracy is unstable. Consequently, neither NATO nor the EU regard it a future member of them.
  (c) More careful attention must be paid to the effects of the NATO/EU enlargement on the politics of the Baltic countries, Ukraine and South East European countries. The enlargement may have some negative effects on the stability of these countries.
  5) The interim report of this study has been issued as an Occasional Papers of the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University in March, 1998 and the final reports of this research project will be gathered into a volume in 1999.
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research, Hokkaido University, 08041043
• 地域間及び国家間協力関係の展開
  科学研究費助成事業
  1995 - 1997
  林 忠行, 岩下 明裕, 秋野 豊, 横手 慎二, 伊東 孝之, 小泉 直美
  この研究は、スラブ・ユーラシア地域における国際関係の変動分析を目的としていた。そこでの知見としては、つぎの諸点を指摘できる。
  1.ロシアの世諭形成者の間では、多様な自己認識と世界認識が存在し、それらの間での外交政策をめぐる諭争が継続している。さしあたりそれらの認識はa)イデオロギー的西欧派、(1)現実主義的西欧派、(2)現実主義的独自路線派、(3)イデオロギー的独自路線派、(4)大国再生派などに分類できる。
  2.現在のロシアがもつ国境観には、なおかつてのロシア帝国やソ連時代に形成された意識が残存しているが、新しいロシア国家が世界システムに組み込まれる過程で、国境の画定の必要性が認識され、かつ非軍事化された国境管理体制の導入が進みつつある。
  3.ロシアは、カフカ-スや中央アジアでの影響力を急速に失いつつあり、またこの地域では独自の地域意識の形成が見られ、また隣接するロシア以外の諸国や米国が影響力を行使し始めている。こうした過程の中で、この地域には新しい地域国際システムの出現が観察される。
  4.ロシアと中国の間では「パートナーシップ」に墓づく国家間関係が構築されつつあるが、それぞれで「中央」と両国国境地域に位置する「地方」との間での両国関係に関する捉え方の差も観察され、それは両国間関係の不安定要因となっている。
  5.東中欧諸国はNATOおよびEU加盟に向かい、これらの諸国とロシアおよび旧ソ連諸国との関係は急速に変容したが、旧ソ連ブロック内で形成された関係の遺産もなお観察できる。その一例が、スロヴァキアとロシアとの関係で、そこでは強い政治、経済、軍事的な提携関係が残っており、それはスロヴァキアの独自の外交路線に反映されている。
  日本学術振興会, 重点領域研究, 北海道大学, 07206103
• ユーラシア国境政治　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  Competitive research funding
• Border Politics in Eurasia　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  Competitive research funding