일본과 동남아시아 지역주의 : 역사적 접근

Abstract

Closely allying with Japan, the ASEAN countries have come to the fore as an active player in international politics since the mid-1980s. This article tries to address one of the recent characteristics of the Southeast Asian regionalism (the Japan depended integrative tendency) by historically analyzing the general patterns of Japan"s ASEAN policies, the correlation between Japan"s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the political-economic process of the ASEAN economic integration, the development of multi-layer relationship between the two regions into political alliance, and finally the characteristics and outlook of this alliance in the context of the Asia-Pacific international politics. This article argues that the Japan-ASEAN relations consist of the triple-layer political-economic structures. First, Japan"s foreign (economic) policies toward the ASEAN have been strategically pursued in crucial foreign policy areas, i. e., mutual confidence building/interchange, the cooperation over political-security issues, official aid (ODA) and FDI. Second, the ASEAN governments" efforts for regional economic integration, having resulted in the collective political tendencies for development of this region, have relied on Japan from the late 1970s. Third, on the basis of the two above aspects, the political alliance between the two regions has systematically grown in the international political arena (regional security issues, the politics in the APEC processes, etc.). This article also points out that the Japan depended Southeast Asian regionalism may encounter fundamental problems, due to the possibility of inter-region cleavage springing from the dynamics of the economic basis (FDI of Japan) of this political alliance, and to the contradiction of Japan"s regional strategy deepened by the rapidly changing international politics within the APEC.