ABSTRACT
There are other forrns of regionalisrn that could be discussed, such as socio-cultural, civil society and so on. While we do not structurally address these, they do pervade the econornic, political and security domains of Northeast Asian regionalism that form this text's central focus. Furtherrnore, this text highlights the interrelationship between these three dornains, and the critical importance of how the progression of one depends on the advancernent of the others. Thus, econornic regionalisrn in Northeast Asia cannot develop while security tensions persist and the region's sense of polítical cornrnunity rernains weak. Conversely, a growing econornic interdependence between the Northeast Asian states can lend great inlperative to forging closer polítical and security ties between thern: a stronger coherence experienced in one domain can help build coherence in others. For exarnple, rnarket-driven processes that íncreasingly link the econornies of Northeast Asia togerher could provide the spur to closer policy, and hence political, co-operation given the need to rnanage this ernerging interdependence (Keohane and Nye 1977). Moreover, stronger security co-operation rnay be deerned necessary to ensure a more stable environrnent for econornic regionalisrn to rnaintain both its rnornenturn and its flow of associated benefits captured by the regional cornrnunity.
