Regionalism, Alliance, and Domestic Politics: The Benelux Model and Northeast Asian Cooperation
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Most of the literature in International Relations stresses the central role of large states in international affairs. Yet smaller states too can at times play a role more than commensurate with their economic and geo.political scale. This paper explores the potentially important role of smaller states in regional economic integration, explicating the historical role of Benelux in European integration, and extrapolating implications for Northeast Asia. Particular attention is given to the prospectively important role of Korea, and of what the Benelux precedent suggests about what that Korean role in Northeast Asian regional integration processes might prospectively be. The comparative analysis devotes special attention to the incentive structure of key sub.national interests, and to how their aggregation through democratic political processes in turn affects broader regional integration prospects.
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Most of the literature in International Relations stresses the central role of large states in international affairs. Yet smaller states too can at times play a role more than commensurate with their economic and geo.political scale. This paper explores the potentially important role of smaller states in regional economic integration, explicating the historical role of Benelux in European integration, and extrapolating implications for Northeast Asia. Particular attention is given to the prospectively important role of Korea, and of what the Benelux precedent suggests about what that Korean role in Northeast Asian regional integration processes might prospectively be. The comparative analysis devotes special attention to the incentive structure of key sub.national interests, and to how their aggregation through democratic political processes in turn affects broader regional integration prospects.