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一、論文題目：Japan and China in the regional architecture in East Asia: A case on the Asian Development Bank
二、發表人：榮沛芳（臺大政治系博士班三年級）
三、主持人：黃長玲老師
四、評論人：左正東教授(台大政治系)、邱奕宏助理教授(交通大學通識教育中心)
五、時間：2015/12/17（四）晚上7時
六、地點：台北市羅斯福路四段一號 台大社科院大樓七樓東側（辛亥路後門）713討論室
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八、論文摘要(本文以英文寫作，論壇時以中文發表)：
The bourgeoning of regional cooperative mechanisms has been an obvious trend in international politics since the end of the Cold War. This is especially pronouncing in East Asia which not only accommodates several vibrant emerging economies, but also is the home of a global rising superpower, China. Before, it used to be Japan who fuelled the development engine and led the rest to achieve the Asian economic miracle, as the famous “the flying-geese model” demonstrated. Also politically, Japan was considered a role model of the US led western values and an agent to promote and consolidate the American leadership in East Asia. It is within this context, that many would naturally assume China’s increasing economic and political strength would challenge Japan’s existing position in the region as well as its overall foreign policy agenda at global level. This would then impact on the political and economic system set out and maintained by the US since post-war era.
By examining key events in the cases of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) project, the Asian Monetary Fund (AMF), and the 2013 presidential election of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), this paper intends to re-examine the conventional assumption on Japan-China interactions. The regional institution was chosen over other world organisations because it is where the Japanese demonstrated the most exclusive and powerful influence since the bank was founded in 1966. This paper argued that competing for influence was constrained by the needs for cooperation in the widely assumed Japan-China rivalry. While competition definitely existed, it has not evolved into any challenging acts so far in the ADB. Neither did the struggle preclude the possibility of cooperation and coordination. The key to understand Japan-China dynamism in international arena is how they perceive the threat that each other pose to their respective national interest and higher goals at the global level. Theoretically, the realists’ interpretation based on power transition and hegemonic stability theory retained its strength in interpreting most of the interactions between Japan and China in the ADB. However, increasingly constructivism also demonstrated explanatory capability on this issue. The realists’ argument, thus, did not always render an overwhelming argument on the relationships, and this finding in the ADB could also be useful for our understanding of the true colours of major-power interactions elsewhere in international relations.