Grant amount：\7670000 （ Direct expense: \5900000 、 Indirect expense：\1770000 ）

This research project examined how transnational networks were transformed by the attempt to strengthen and deepen the regional cooperation, as a response to globalization. The project focused on the islands in the Barents Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the East China Sea and the South Pacific. The results of the project were published as a report in Japanese and English, as well as the content in the university institutional repository.

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Grant amount：\2470000 （ Direct expense: \1900000 、 Indirect expense：\570000 ）

How has been the UN Administration changing? The purpose of this project was to consider the UN administration especially focusing on the UN staff. To that end, while understanding the whole development of the human resource management, I tried to analyze the comprehensive UN administration including the administration of justice system.

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Grant amount：\2340000 （ Direct expense: \1800000 、 Indirect expense：\540000 ）

This research attempted to analyze principles on the responsibility of international organizations from perspectives of both international law and public administration, and to explore some desirable international bureaucracy to promote accountability. In addition, it could clarify a part of the legal principles on the responsibility of international organizations by verifying responsibility mechanisms through international and domestic judicial practices.

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Grant amount：\4420000 （ Direct expense: \3400000 、 Indirect expense：\1020000 ）

(1)<高度な科学技術の開発は、生活水準を大きく向上させる一方で、予測不可能なリスクが国境を越えてひとびとの生活を脅かす「世界リスク社会」を到来させた>というリスク社会論の知見、(2)<人々の間の信頼関係・規範・ネットワーク>を計測・制御可能な「社会関係資本Social Capital」と捉え直すソーシャル・キャピタル論の知見、および(3)両者の接合可能性について、政治学、基礎法学、国際法学の観点から法政策学的な検討を試みた。

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Grant amount：\3100000 （ Direct expense: \3100000 ）

This research project focuses on regional cooperation on the sea to fulfill human security, which is different from military cooperation that we usually regard as the equivalent of regional security cooperation on the sea. Regional human security cooperation on the sea is now attracting attention in the Asia-Pacific, namely ASEAN sea region and the South Pacific. While these regions are still on the process of regional human security cooperation on the sea, Northern Europe (Barents Sea) and the Baltic Sea are known as the regions which have been actively engaged in this kind of regional cooperation. The purpose of this research project is to investigate regional human security cooperation on the sea, by comparing Northern Europe (Barents Sea) and the Baltic Sea as the precedents to Asia (ASEAN sea region) and the Pacific (South Pacific) as succeeding cases, and clarifying the characteristic of each case.
As the first step, the project examined regional human security cooperation in theoretical perspective. Then, it collected the references on regional human security cooperation on the sea of the above regions, and carried out interviews in the regional organizations, government offices and local NGOs in the concerning regions. Based on them, the project compared each case and analyzed how regional human security cooperation on the sea has been conducted.
From the analysis, the project clarifies not only the states but also various non-state actors, such as representatives of regional councils, NGOs and local communities, are involved in regional human security cooperation on the sea in each region. It is important to note that this reflects each particular regional context. This enables regional human security cooperation on the sea in each region to develop in a flexible form beyond inter-state cooperation.

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Grant amount：\3300000 （ Direct expense: \3300000 ）

1.リスク論とソーシャル・キャピタル論の接合の可能性の検討とその法政策学的インプリケーションの解明
リスク論とソーシャル・キャピタル論の関連・接合可能性については、2006年7月23日に山崎望氏(日本学術振興会特別研究員)を招き「リスク社会における政治の変容」という題で研究会を開催した。また、ソーシャル・キャピタル論と密接な関わりのある公共性をめぐる思想的、制度的な諸問題について研究を行い、成果として、小田川(研究代表者)は共著『共和主義の思想空間』(名古屋大学出版会、2007年7月)を、黒神(研究分担者)は単著『国際公務員法の研究』(信山社、2006年5月)を、大森(研究分担者)は単著『共和主義の法理論』(勁草書房、2006年6月)を刊行した。また、岡田(研究分担者)の論文「行政行為の瑕疵論「無効の行政行為」の意味」が『法治国家の展開と現代的構成』(法律文化社、2006年12月)に収録された。
2.リスク論の法政策学的研究
リスク論に関わる個別的な問題について研究を進め、具体的な成果として、河原(研究分担者)が植村和秀(京都産業大学)と共編で『外国人参政権問題の国際比較』(昭和堂、2006年11月)を刊行した。また成廣(研究分担者)は、2006年度比較政治学会研究会(10月7-8日、於立教大学)の共通論題「9-11事件と国内政治の変動」で、中山俊宏氏(津田塾大学)と共に「9-11事件と国内政治の変動アメリカ・イギリスについて」という報告を行っており、その成果は中山氏との共著論文「9-11事件と国内政治の変動:アメリカとイギリスの比較」として『日本比較政治学会年報』9巻(2007年近刊予定)に掲載されることになっている。

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Grant amount：\1600000 （ Direct expense: \1600000 ）

International organizations, like all artificial legal persons, can only act through human agents. These organizations employ many categories of staff to carry out their objectives. Recently, because of the diversity of organizations and the expansion of their activities, the number of human agents working for these organizations has vastly increased. A result of these developments is that relationships between organizations and their staff have been formed in secretariats. They require regulations and rules to control these relationships. As a result, there is a need for the relationship to be subjected to some common legal system for the convenience on the side of an organization. In other words, international organizations can control their staff members with their own regulations and rules to perform their function efficiently.
It can be seen that staff members of the secretariat cannot perform their duties sufficiently if they have an influence from member States or other authorities. They must perform their function outside the legal system of any States or other authorities. Therefore the first thing to consider is that they must be governed by other rules than that of States. It means that a pure relationship between organizations and their staff have to be established by excluding an influence from other authorities. In this context, it is required for international organizations to establish their own legal system governing the relationship between organizations and their staff.
There are many legal practices by which administrative tribunals interpret and apply legal rules in the organizations. It seems that there is a bundle of law by activities of administrative tribunals. This bundle of law is a legal system which can be called "the Law of the International Civil Service." Therefore I did clarify what this law is, here.

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Grant amount：\7500000 （ Direct expense: \7500000 ）

This Study aims to clarify the nature and the process of the evolution of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) in light of the institutional and environmental challenges it faces in the recent years.
First, this study analyzed the establishment of the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty in 2003, from the perspective of international law and the law of international organizations. Shibata has overviewed the institutional development of the ATS, while Kurokami analyzed the history of the evolution of international secretariats, within which the significance of the establishment of the AT Secretariat was examined. A detailed analysis of the negotiating history of and the legal provisions relating to the establishment of the AT Secretariat (Shibata) demonstrated that the ecretariat, from institutional point of view, was unique in nature, as negotiating states was very careful not to establish it as an international organization. Second, as regards the environmental challenges, this study examined the so-called Liability Annex (adopted in 2005) to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. This study analyzed in detail the negotiating history of the Liability Annex (Shibata) and examined its substantive content from the perspective of international environmental law (Takamura). Watanabe has also examined it from the perspective of science: its consequences for scientific activities in Antarctica.
As the result of the above research, this study came to the conclusion that the ATS, while coping with the institutional and environmental challenges, did not change its fundamental nature but evolved and strengthened it, as the System incorporated the general tenets of international law developments into its adaptation process, thereby demonstrating its resilience.

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Grant amount：\2100000 （ Direct expense: \2100000 ）

国際公務員の身分保障制度に関して、前年度から行ってきた国際行政裁判所の判例を整理検討する作業と併行して、国際公務員の身分保障制度上重要と思われる国連行政裁判所の制度改革についてフォローした。
国連行政裁判所規程11条に定める手続(「11条手続」)により、行政裁判所判決に不服な当事者-事務総長及び職員-並びに加盟国は、国内裁判所における上訴のごとく、国際司法裁判所に勧告的意見を要請することができる。この手続については、近年多くの問題点が指摘されるようになり、結局、同手続は、1995年12月に廃止された。
今年度は、特にこの11条手続の廃止という最近生じた問題を通じて国際公務員法の一端を考察することにした。まず、同手続の起草過程から、同手続が、憲章上の原則に反して、職員の勤務関係に対して加盟国に介入の手がかりを与えるものであったことが分かった。また、同手続の抱えた手続法上の問題点も併せて検討した。これらの点に鑑み、11条手続が廃止されたことは、職員の身分保障という観点から見れば大いに歓迎すべきことであったと結論づけられる。さらに近年の総会の動きの中に位置づけるならば、機構と職員との関係において、加盟国の不当な介入を避けようとする意識が国連全体に広まってきたようにも思われる。したがって、この11条手続の廃止という問題が、国際公務員制度に対する各国の現時点での認識の程度、ないしは、国際公務員制度の発展状況を示す一つの指標であったようにも考えられ、国際公務員の身分保障法たる国際公務員法を構築する上で大いに有意義であった。
この国連行政裁判所判決審査手続の廃止の問題については、平成13年2月に関西国際機構研究会(於京都大学)にて研究報告を行った。また、この研究成果として、「国連行政裁判所判決審査手続の廃止について」と題する論文を『岡山大学創立50周年記念論文集』(近刊)に発表する予定である。

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