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A World of Regions - The Contemporary World

This document discusses regionalism and the formation of regional organizations. It explains that governments, groups, and societies form regional alliances to cope with globalization. Regions are constructed social phenomena defined by policymakers rather than natural. Countries come together in regional associations for several reasons, including military defense, economic cooperation, protecting independence, and responding to economic crises. Examples of major regional organizations mentioned are NATO, OPEC, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

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A World of Regions - The Contemporary World

This document discusses regionalism and the formation of regional organizations. It explains that governments, groups, and societies form regional alliances to cope with globalization. Regions are constructed social phenomena defined by policymakers rather than natural. Countries come together in regional associations for several reasons, including military defense, economic cooperation, protecting independence, and responding to economic crises. Examples of major regional organizations mentioned are NATO, OPEC, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

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A World of Regions - The Contemporary

World
1. A WORLD OF REGIONS THE
CONTEMPORARY WORLD

2.  Governments, associations,
societies and groups form regional
organizations and/or network as a
way of coping with the challenges of
globalizations.

3. REGIONALISM
• It is examined in relation to
identities, ethics, religion,
ecological sustainability and
health.
• It is a process and must be
treated as an “emergent, socially
constituted phenomenon.”
• Regions are not natural or given
rather, they are constructed and
defined by the policymakers,
economic actors and even social
movements.

4. • regional concentration of
economic flows”
• It is the process of dividing the
area into smaller segments called
regions. Example: Division of Nation
into states or provinces

REGIONALISM
• Political process characterized
by economic policy cooperation and
coordination among countries.

5. REGIONALISM
• Edward D. Mansfield and Helen V.
Milner
• The economic and political
definitions of regions vary.
Regions
• are “a group of countries located
in the geographically specified
area” or “an amalgamation of two
regions or a combination of more
than two regions” organized to
regulate and “oversee flows and
policy choices.”
6. Economic and political respond of
Countries to Globalization

7.  1. Some are large enough and


have a lot of resources to dictate
how they participate in process of
global integration.

• Example: China

2. Other countries make up for their


small size by taking advantage of
their strategic location.
• Countries form regional alliance -
for as the saying – there is a
strength in numbers’

8.  REASONS OF FORMING REGIONAL


ASSOCIATIONS

1. Military Defense North Atlantic


Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Formed during the Cold War when
several Western European
countries plus the United states
agreed to protect Europe against
the threat of the Soviet Union.

9.  WARSAW PACT
• a regional alliance created by
Soviet Union • Soviet Union imploded
in December 1991 but NATO remains in
place.

10. Pool their resources, get better


return for their exports and expand
their leverage against trading
partners.

11. Organization of the Petroleum


Exporting Countries (OPEC) • It was
established in 1960 by Iran, Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. • It
aims to regulate the production and
sale of oil. • OPEC’s success
convinced 9 other oil-producing
countries to join it.

12. Protect their independence from


the pressure of superpower politics.

13.  Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)


• Created by Egypt, Ghana, India,
Indonesia and Yugoslavia in 1961 to
pursue world peace and international
cooperation, human rights, national
sovereignty, racial and national
equality, non Intervention and
peaceful conflict resolution.
• Because the association refused to
side with either first world
countries capitalist democracies in
Western Europe and North America or
communist states in Easter Europe. •
With 120 member countries.

14. Economic Crisis compels countries


to come together

15. Example:
• The Thai economy collapsed in 1996
after the foreign currency speculators
and troubled international banks
demanded that the Thai government pay
back its loans.
• It made ASEAN more “unified and
coordinated” 

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