Nacionalismo, globalización y orden regional en el Nordeste Asiático: el caso de Japón a comienzos del siglo XXI

Abstract

This paper attempts to make sense of the “Northeast Asian mystery” in primary reference to the following three concepts, as seen from Japan: nationalism, globalization and regional order. Nationalism is intermittently vehement by recalling the seemingly robust sense of the traditional regional order and in response to the contradictions arising from what they regard as the unipolarity of the United States and the tide of globalization. Globalization permeates the region remarkably fast to take advantage of the vast and wide-ranging gaps within the region, given the high level of industrial entrepreneurship and industriousness. Regional order is characterized by extraordinary unpredictability and resilient peace, in a multilayered multilevel structure in Northeast Asia. From this point of view the article attempts to delineate six regional order models that have been envisaged in Japan for the last few years.