ABSTRACT
The enhancing regional economic networks (with or without formal institutional arrangements) and the broadened agenda of regional security cooperation in the post-Cold War era give rise to new analytical aspects of a regional economic-security nexus above and beyond its relevance to the contentions of geo-political power and military build-up. The implications of economic interdependence for national security spur further deliberations on the notion of economic security. Despite the the fact that the interlock of national economic and security interests has been reflected in the strategic thinking of many countries, at regional level, the economic determinants of Northeast Asian security remain, however, overshadowed by geopolitical factors and thus inadequately studied by security communities. This chapter supplements the current literature on security regionalism and explores the prospects of developing economic regionalism to promote regional security in Northeast Asia.
