Logistic Analysis of Energy Security Cooperation of Northeast Asia

Abstract

Nowadays energy security is an important issue that many countries focus on, especially in the Northeast Asia. Regional energy security cooperation is important to Northeast Asia. The stability of regional energy security cooperation reflects in the competition and cooperation between the countries. The logistic model, which is often used to describe the law of population growth in biology, could analysis the stability of regional energy security cooperation. According to which the hierarchy of needs and resource dependencies among the Northeast Asian countries, there are three models of cooperation, which are Equality and mutual benefit model, attachment symbiotic model and resource dependence model. Each model is analyzed, and then some suggestions are given.