Structural Constructivism And Regional Public Goods

The new conception, regional public goods (or regional international publicgoods, RIPGs), refers to in a particular geographic district or functional area a type ofpublic goods that exert special effectiveness upon totally or partly the agents in thatdistrict or area. The study on RIPGs refers to the research on the process and structurethat leads to the joint payments, common incomes and promotion in cooperationconducted by the agents in regions.In the interaction process of RIPGs supplying and consuming, materialisticdivision of labor reflects the substantial effect of each agent, and however, the studyon this sort of division meets constraints: the understandings of agents’ to the divisionof labor are various that leads to the differentiation in the agents’ manners andbehaviors. Due to this fact, the concept of materialistic division of labor findsdifficulty to explain in the equaled structures of division of labor the differentiatedbehaviors stilly existing within the process of interaction.The understandings of agents’ to the division of labor construct those agents’cognitions to each other’s social identity, and RIPGs supplier, consumer and free-riderthus become the products of these agents’ ideas. The agents might view a legalconsumer of public goods as a free-rider, or might take a free-rider as the supplier ofthe goods. In addition, role-identity is another variable decides the relations amongagents: agents could view each other as an enemy, competitor or friend that motivatethem to conduct differentiated behaviors. Social and role-identities complement eachother, and the differences in cognitions to identity mean that RIPGs do not alwaysorient to agents’ collective identification by which reason the qualities of cooperationtoward RIPGs are diverse: cooperating exist in not merely friendship, but alsocompetition and opposition.In the interactive process of RIPGs for trading, finance and security the EastAsian nations have not collective but competing cognition to China’s identity: theyare more likely to view China as not a truly friend but a competitor. Due to theself-filling of identification, China has already appeared the trend to transit from afriend to a competitor. The development of China requires a peaceful and stable external environmentby which reason developing friendship with East Asian nations is China’s consistentpolicy. If China needs to construct more cooperative relations, it will require China toexert more efforts on the common fate, interdependence, homogeneity andself-discipline between China and the other nations in East Asia, and conductdetermined and adapted resistance to the provocations and illegal obligations forensuring the others’ cognition to China’s self-discipline in order to construct thecollective identity between China and the other East Asian nations.