(1) Assuming that it is necessary to think about the formation of the new international order in Asia in the 1950s in relation to the development of the Cold War System, we have come tip with significant findings concerning the relation between its formation and the international economic aid Plan, that is, the Colombo Plan for Asia such as Marshall Plan for Europe.(2) lie found that the Colombo Plan was to preserve the influence of Great Britain in Asia for Great Britain and to secure the network of military powers against the communism.(3) Re also found that the necessary resources, mainly the sterling balances were fal I ing down in the mid-1950s. and the Asian countries have shifted from the bilateral policy to the multilateral to collect the fund.(4) Through case studies, we have discovered that the Colombo Plan had very important role in forming the self-governing regional association of the Asia countries during the fader way of British influence and the raising of United States' hegemony in the 1960s

As the result of multi-archival research and 5 intensive research workshops (including 3 Anglo-Japanese workshops), the project members were able to achieve multilateral and comprehensive analyses of Japanese diplomacy in the 1950s. Especially, project members were able to look at both Japanese diplomacy and the policies of the UK, the US and Asian countries towards Japan in a wider perspective of politics, security, economics, social conditions, and mentalities of decision-makers.Thus we learned clearly that with the background of the Cold War, Asian Decolonisation and the growing solidarity of the Third World countries, Japanese diplomacy was formed as multiple combination of mutually-related policy decisions concerning not only US-Japan relations, but also Russo-Japanese normalization, the two Chinas, coordination with Britain's Asian policy. UN membership, accession to GATT and ECAFE, etc.We also had a various new findings about the hitherto uncovered links between policy issues, links to Japan's domestic politics, use of informal channels, changes in American and British attitudes towards Japan in the mid-1950s, and perception gap between governments.The project members are now preparing articles for a joint book publication in Britain

1.This project was one of the international academic interchanges between Kobe University(Faculty of Law and Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies) and University of Sheffield, UK(Graduate School of East Asian Studies and Department of Politics). After two joint seminars (in UK, 1997, and in Kobe, 1998), we held the international seminar at Sheffield University, 7-8 January 2000. Beside the participants from both universities, many academicians (from University of Warwick, University of Leeds, University of Tokyo, and the like) participated in the seminar.2.The seminars' papers of the three years' project were included in the report, "Globalization and Universalism in Region : A Link to the 21st Century." From the project, we got knowledges as follows.(1)International relations are surely developing into the new phases which roughly resemble that of the medieval age.(2)The regionalization is observed in many international regions.(3)The beginning of the regionalization can be found in Japan, too.(4)International relations in the 21st century are anticipated as the multilevel interaction between relations among the states, regionalization and globalization.3.We will develop the academic interchange between Kobe University and University of Sheffield as one of the cores of international academic interchange between Japan and UK, in the future. This project is the important basis for it