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

第16回優秀賞crisis has emerged. But, sound advice and warnings that a crisis of such a massivescale was looming large were conspicuously missing. In other words, our actionsare essentially reactive, and we are yet to materialize the declared intention to beproactive and preventive in dealing with global problems.Another foreboding telltale from the Asian crisis is the peculiar reaction of theinternational community to a crisis, particularly, its treatment to those in need.Here, unfortunately, impartiality and evenhandedness remain flagrant, with certainmembers of the community receiving more privileges than the others. Due to theirstanding as the“Asian Tigers,”and also as part of the“East Asian Miracles,”theEast and Southeast Asian economies were fortunate to have received immediate andmassive assistance from many sides, bilaterally as well as multilaterally. By contrast,very few cared about the appalling economic difficulties concurrently being facedby the peoples in perceivably“less-important”economies, such as those in manyparts of Africa. At the other end of the extreme, we can see that the plight of theordinary citizens in perceivably“hostile”countries is simply hopeless, e.g. in Iraq andNorth Korea, due to the prolonged and seemingly endless sanctions imposed by theinternational community against the respective ruling regimes.This was not a matter of luck. Real politik must have played a role in causing suchan unequal treatment. The reason why some parts of the world are given generoussupport while other places with the same or worse condition receive mere sympathyis attributable to narrow and biased national interests, including and especially thoseof the rich and powerful. Globalization, it seems, is not akin to universalism, and theworld is yet to get rid of its chronic problems of favoritism and discrimination.811