The Genealogy Of Logic In East Asian Community Building

The term East Asian Community is not nascent, but has existed for a few years. However, what does it mean? How does it emerge? What principles does it adhere to? And what does it resort to being? Over the years, the parties with no consensus are always difficult to compromise about the issues mentioned above. Probably because of such reasons, East Asian Community is once regarded as a fashionable word with pretentious nature, hard to get a practical understanding of its meaning. As East Asian countries increasingly show a posture of overall economic rise, the loose relationship with each other gradually disappears. Such a situation of closer and closer economic cooperation and integration within East Asia objectively stimulates countries in the region to ponder over the idea to shape East Asian Community. Communication and coordination on politics and traditional and non-traditional safety about a series of regional hot issues promote East Asian countries'perception of regional fate community as well as. As a result, East Asian Community is no longer a topic only with visional appearance, and it enters a new phase to outline a blueprint so as to implement. The genealogy of logic in East Asian Community building is the very attempt to fulfill the goals.The basic arrangements of this dissertation are to strive for the precise position of the"points, lines, and plane". To identify the key breakthroughs and the clues throughout the context, the dissertation ultimately proposes a survey review around the processes of East Asian Community building. The dissertation includes introduction, main body, conclusion, and appendices. Among them, there are five chapters in the main body. Starting from the time-space logic, and then extends to market logic, power logic, and culture logic, the dissertation seeks to interpret the historical origin, primary impetus, the structures of institutions, and the identity on values of East Asian Community. Finally, some tentative suggestions are made to choose the path in the East Asian Community building. The dissertation has always been to follow the main lines of logic genealogy in the community building of East Asia, actively explores the possible linkages induced by the interrelations within the relevant parties. This dissertation pursues to achieve the academic aesthetic effect to respect history, to concern the reality, and to prospect the future. In the voluminous literatures about East Asia research, drop in the ocean should have its own features. Whether the study on East Asian Community will be spectacular like other East Asian topics or not, it depends on our continuous efforts. This dissertation is the small step to move forward the direction. The main arrangements of the dissertation are as follows:Chapter I: Origin and Evolution– Time-Space Logic of East Asian Community Building. First of all, the time-space horizon should be described in the genealogy of logic in East Asian Community building. The specific analysis must be stemmed from this description.Chapter II: Openness and Closure– Market Logic of East Asian Community Building. This chapter gives the interpretation of regionalism, and then distinguishes between its new and old stages, positive and negative effects as well. Furthermore, this chapter points out the running track of regionalism faces the choices between openness and closure. The critical linkages between regionalism and regional community are to determine the optimal option among the relations intertwined the outward looking with the inward looking. The development of regionalism in East Asia has been accompanied by the competition between the APEC and"10+3"mechanism. They respectively infuse the different elements of openness and closure into the building track of East Asian Community.Chapter III: The Unilateral and the Multilateral– Power Logic of East Asian Community Building. This chapter firstly defines the original meaning of power, and then explores the form of power politics embedded in the international relations. The chapter further reveals the logical links between the distribution of power and the regional community building, and then specifies the power structure in East Asia is the contest between the unilateral and the multilateral. The U.S.'s strategy of East Asia is to maintain its stable position to be a hegemon. The interaction between China and Japan will affect the future power pattern of East Asian Community whether should be on the way to the unilateral or the multilateral.Chapter IV: Memory and Identity– Culture Logic of East Asian Community Building. The chapter respectively clears up the logical linkages between construction of identity and nation-state, the construction of identity and the regional community as well. By clarifying the significance of East Asian discussion, the regional experiences about industrialization and modern civilization, the flooding of war and nationalism, the chapter reveals the advantages and disadvantages of the construction of East Asian common memory. Then, this chapter proposes the methods of construction in psychology, responses to stress, and functions to shape the East Asian collective identity.Chapter V: Imitation and Originality– the Logical Path of East Asian Community Building. This chapter focuses on the use of comparative analysis by combining the possible plan in East Asia with the experiences of European Community. Thus, this chapter discusses the path choices of East Asian Community building. European building project in market logic, power logic, and culture logic can all be learnt by East Asia. However, different time-space environments determine East Asia will necessarily explore its individual original way to build the regional community.