ブックタイトル佐藤栄作論文集９～１６

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佐藤栄作論文集９～１６

globalization, by preventing them from recognizing the possibility of capitalizing onsome of the driving forces of globalization. By dint of the Internet, for example, evensmall merchants can nowadays find a niche market for their products in a nationaland even a global market making the best of the Internet and a liberalizing globaltrade regime. Furthermore, cross-cultural interaction and learning throughout theworld --- i.e., cultural globalization -- has been progressing, thus creating unexpectedmarkets for unexpected products, thus making it possible even for small merchants/producers to survive in an increasingly competitive global market. Who would havethought ten years ago, for example, that“saris”produced by small textile companiesin Japan are coveted by many Indian immigrant women in New York City?GLOBALIZATION AND THE UNITED NATIONSRosenau believed that global politics is made up of two worlds:The universe of global politics had come to consist of two interactive worldswith overlapping memberships: a multi-centric world of diverse, relativelyequal actors, and a state-centric world in which national actors are stillprimary. 6In the context of such a dual world, the proper role of the United Nations shouldbe that of a bridge connecting these two worlds, according to Rosenau. The multicentricworld, in which actions and reactions originate with multiple actors at diversesystem levels, has evolved independently of the state-centric world, thereby positingthe mutual independence of the two worlds. 7The problem with this conceptualization of a“dual-world,”however, is that itunrealistically assumes that the two worlds are independent of each other, while atthe same time their overlapping memberships are interacting with each other. It is678６James N. Rosenau, Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity, (Princeton University Press,1990), pp. 97-98.７Ibid., p. 97.