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Overview and Introduction What
is Regionalism?

• April 13, 2006
• Regional Anatomy I
• Ken JIMBO

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Course Description

• This course is primarily offered for the
  International Advanced Degrees Program of
  Graduate School of Media and Governance, but also
  widely opens for graduate/undergraduate students
  at SFC.
• The working language for this course is English.
  All lectures, discussions, presentations and
  essays are conducted in English. Therefore,
  students who wish to enroll for this course
  should be highly eligible in reading, writing and
  communicating in English.

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Students Requirements (1)

• Complete both the mid-term report (minimum 1200
  words) and the final report (minimum 2400 words).
• The midterm report focuses on the critical review
  of the theoretical and empirical aspects of
  regionalism (in East Asia), based on the lectures
  and readings at the early stage of this course.
• As for the final report, students are expected to
  discover your own issue areas (of any kind that
  related to regional governance/anatomy) to
  analyze the dynamics of regionalism.
• Details for these assignments are to be notified
  at the class.

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Students Requirement (2)

• Make an original presentation on the subject
  which you deal with on the final report, either
  at 11th (29th June), 12th (6th July) or 13th
  (13th July) class. Your research focus, outlines
  and tentative findings should be presented.
• The length of presentation may differ by numbers
  of students who take this course (15-20 minutes
  each?)
• If numbers were limited (less than 20 students),
  you are also expected to be a primary discussant
  for at least one class.

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Evaluation and Grade

• Mid-term Report (30)
• Final Report (40)
• Class Participation and Presentation (30)

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Course Schedules (1)

• 1) April 13 Overview and Introduction What is
  Regionalism?
• 2) April 20 Regionalism Regional Integration
• 3) April 27 Regionalism in Asia-Pacific after
  WWII to Asian Economic
  Crisis
• 4) May 11 Emerging Regionalization in East Asia
  Whither East Asian Community?
• 5) May 18 New Dynamics of Multilateral Security
  in Asia-Pacific
• 6) May 25 Sub-Regionalism and Ad-hoc
  Regionalism Case for Asia
• 7) June 1 New Security Threats and Global
  Integration View from a Region

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Course Schedules (2)

• 8) June 8 Japan's Foreign Policy and Regionalism
  I Historical Aspects
• 9) June 15 Japan's Foreign Policy and
  Regionalism II US-Japan Security Relations
• 10) June 22 Japan's Foreign Policy and
  Regionalism III Agenda for the Future
• 11) June 29 Students' Presentation
• 12) July 6 Students' Presentation
• 13) July 13 Students' Presentation and Conclusion

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Introduction What is Regionalism?
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Defining Region

• In International Relations, it generally
  indicates the multilateral groupings of
  neighboring nations
• (eg. Europe, Middle East, East Asia)
• The primary common sense usage connotes physical
  contiguity and societal homogeneity. Within
  state actors, contiguity and proximity seems to
  be an important prerequisite for creating and
  maintaining a sense of unity.
• Indeed proximity seems to be a necessary,
  although not sufficient condition for confident
  stipulation of a region.

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Region beyond geography?

• Case 1 East Asia Summit
• ASEAN 3 Process
• ASEAN Japan, China, Korea (3)
• East Asia Summit
• ASEAN 3 Australia, New Zealand, India
• Which represents East Asia?
• How do you react if Australian identify
  themselves as East Asian?

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Region beyond cultural bond?

• Case 2 EU expansion to Turkey
• EU Member States Christian community
• Turkey Islamic community
• If a region expands beyond ties of cultural
  bindings, what are guiding principles of making a
  region?

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Functional Region

• Economic Integration (see Edward L. Mansfield,
  Helen V. Milner 1997)
• Free Trade Area, customers union, common markets
• Economic interdependence
• Security Complex (see David A. Lake and Patrik
  Morgan 1997)
• Region united by common security problems
• A group of states whose primary security
  concerns link together sufficiently closely
• Functional relations
• Environment, Transnational Issuesetc.

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Defining Regionalism

• Cognitive definition
• A complex of attitudes, loyalties and ideas
  which concentrates the individual and collective
  minds of people(s) upon what they perceive as
  their region.
• Functional Definition
• A functional relation that bundles multiple
  nations with their political, economic and
  cultural inheritance, often based on the
  geographical advantage

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Why Regionalism matters?

• Deepening and widening process of globalization
  made region in the different context
• How the current process of regionalism is
  different from ones of decades ago?
• Were there any historical trends or waves of
  making of a region?

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How Region inter-relates with other frameworks?

• The rise of Regionalism in the era of
  globalization, and upheaval of nationalism
• Are regions formed as exclusive character, or
  inclusive/open groupings?
• What are the relations between global frameworks,
  bilateral frameworks and rational choices of
  governments?

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Globalism / Regionalism / Bilateralism

• Economic Sphere
  Security Sphere
• Global Framework GATT / IMF UN /
  Multinational
• Mega-Regionalism APEC
  ARF / OSCE
• Regionalism EU / ASEAN 3
  EU / ASEAN
• Coalition Multilateral FTAs
  Anti-Terrorism
• Bilateralism Bilateral FTAs
  Bilateral Alliance

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Regionalism Overview
OSCE
NATO
ASEM
EU
NAFTA
Japan/Korea/China
FEALAC
GCC
ARF APEC
ASEAN3
ECOWAS
ASEAN
FTAA
PIF
MELCOSUR
AU
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Creation of a Region
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Regionalism Typology

• Mega/Wide-Regionalism
• APEC, ARF, ASEM
• Sub-Regionalism
• ASEAN
• Japan-China-Korea
• Functional Regionalism
• Anti-Terrorism Cooperation
• Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)

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Agenda Ahead

• Regionalism Regional Integration
• Regionalism in Asia-Pacific after WWII to Asian
  Economic Crisis
• Emerging Regionalization in East Asia Whither
  East Asian Community?
• New Dynamics of Multilateral Security in
  Asia-Pacific
• Sub-Regionalism and Ad-hoc Regionalism Case for
  Asia