ABSTRACT
Nevertheless, global and regional orders emerge out of a complex process of order-building involving not only the military and economic dimensions of power, but also the political and cultural. For order is based on consensual as well as coercive elements of power (Cox, 1987: 7). What is more, as in the Cold-War era the non-aligned movement sought to puncture the bipolarism and bilateralism at the heart of the global and regional orders, so in the post-Cold War era processes and actions which link parts of different regions together are puncturing order-building based on discrete, tripolar economic alliances and regional identities. In this sense, the restructuring of global and regional orders involving the military, economic, political and cultural dimensions of power, on the one hand, and multidimensional interregional linkages, not just tripolar economic regionalization, on the other, need to be taken into account in seeking to provide a fuller understanding of EuroJapanese relations in the emerging post-Cold War orders.
