DIPLOMACY

VOLUME XXXI NO.10

From the Chairman

Exclusive Interview

Korea-Pakistan Relations

ROK-U.S. Relations

Camera DIPLOMACY

Conference

To Promote Cooperation and Common Dev't in Northeast Asia:

With the rapid development of economic globalization, regional cooperation and integration carried out vigorously throughout the world has been the trend of our time. The European Union has been leading this process. It has overcome many obstacles and continuously deepened its integration.
North America and East Asia have also made great achievements in regional cooperation. Northeast Asia, with vast areas, rich resources and huge markets, is one of the most important regions in the world. The intra-regional industrial and product structures are highly complementary. Hence, there is ...

In Order to Prompt Regionalism to Prevail Over Nationalism:

Both nationalism and regionalism are rising steadily in Northeast Asia now. By and large, political imperatives are working toward nationalism, but economic imperatives are working toward regionalism. As a result, we find "hot economics" and "cold politics" but little institutional linkage between them in Northeast Asia's international relations.
The rise of China as the world' fastest growing largest economy is resulting in a market-driven economic regionalism. However, the rising tide of nationalism is constraining Northeast Asian states from forming a state-driven regional communi...