Northeast Asian regionalism: Lessons from Europe, North America, Asia-pacific, and Southeast Asia

Tsuneo Akaha

Global Economic Review, 1999, vol. 28, issue 2, 28-49

Abstract: The article discusses the major characteristics of Northeast Asia as a region in terms of the distribution of power, the role of the state and of the market in the process of economic development and transnational market integration, and the cultural and other norms that inform the development of consensus on regional cooperation. It then reviews the experiences of regional cooperation in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and Southeast Asia in terms of the same variables. Finally, the article discusses the lessons to be drawn from these experiences for the desirable and likely direction of regional cooperation in Northeast Asia. The basic argument is that in Northeast Asia, an incremental, consensus-based, evolutionary approach to region building is both likely and desirable to accommodate the disparate power distribution, varying levels of economic development, and diverse domestic dynamic, including cultural norms, that are found in the region.

Date: 1999
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