@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00022825,
 author = {小畑, 郁 and OBATA, Kaoru},
 journal = {Nagoya University Asian Law Bulletin},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {We can now speak about constitutionalization in (North and South) East Asia. In fact, the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) plus Three (China, Japan and Republic of Korea) Summit has already declared an East Asian Community as their long-term objective since 2005. The ASEAN decided to establish the three ASEAN communities: Political-Security, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Communities in 2015. The purpose of this article is to identify some challenges facing these movements, comparing them to the European experience. Main findings are as follows: First, the engine for the East Asian constitionalization always reside in ASEAN, while the two giants in the region, China and Japan have not been directly involved in the process so far. Thus, the originally European concept of variable geometry is not simply applicable to the situations there. Second, among the ASEAN communities, the Economic Community (AEC) is outstanding in terms of concretization. The AEC is said to be motivated by promotion of foreign investments. On the other hand, efforts in the fields of social security and employment are still weak. In sum, in East Asia, there is a real risk that their integration would be narrowed down into a tool to facilitate the countries’ absorption into globalized economy. In this context, legalization of regional standards is unavoidable, and of course legal assistance is so important in this regard. It is therefore submitted that too much attention to economic aspects or the step by step approach starting from economic integration would only contribute to hindering autonomous development of peoples in the region in the context of globalization. At the same time, we have to take a cautious approach to constitutionalization, taking the legal nihilism subsisting in this region into due consideration.},
 pages = {2--16},
 title = {グローバル化のなかの東アジア地域憲法秩序化への展望と課題},
 volume = {1},
 year = {2016}
}