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A WORLD OF REGIONS  Groups Regional Organizations Societies A way ofRegional coping with the Governments challenges of Organizations globalization. Association Regionalism...

A WORLD OF REGIONS  Groups Regional Organizations Societies A way ofRegional coping with the Governments challenges of Organizations globalization. Association Regionalism Economic Regional IdentitiesEthicsReligion Health Ecological ism Sustainability Is a process, and must be treated as “anEmergent, socially constituted phenomenon” Regions are not natural or given They are constructed and defined by policymakers, economic actors and even social movements Regionalism This lesson will look at regions as political entities, ethics, and examine what brings them together as they Economic interlock with Where all these regionalisms are bringing us as members of a nation and as citizens of the world? Countries, Regions and Edward D. Mansfield and Helen V. Milner states that economic and political definitions of regions vary, but there are certain basic features that everyone can agree on. First, regions are “ a group of countries located in the same geographically specified area” or are “ an amalgation of two regions or a combination of more than two regions” organized to regulate and “oversee flows and policy choices” “Regional concentration of economic flows” Second, the words regionalization and regionalism should not be interchanged “A political process characterized by economic policy cooperation and coordination among countries”  Countries respond Economically and Politically to Globalization in Various Ways China Singapore Switzerland  Countries Form Regional Associations for Several Reason To protect their independen Military Defense To pool ce from the Economic Crisis their pressures of resources superpowe r politics  Internationa l Monetary ASEA Association Fund N More Has come a long unified Tried to reverse the crisis, way since it was and but it was only after the formed as a coordinate ASEAN countries along with coalition of countries d China, Japan and South which were pro- Korea agreed to establish Continued American and emergency fund to to act as a supportive of the anticipate a crisis that the military United States Asian Economies stabilized. alliance intervention in Vietnam.  Non-State Regionalism  It is identified with a reformist who share the same “values, norms, and systems, that Tiny associations that include exist outside of no more than a few actors the traditional, Rely on the power of and focus on a single issue, or established individual, NGOs, and huge continental unions that mainstream institutions and associations to link up address a multitude of with one another in systems” common problems from pursuit of a particular territorial defense to food security. goal. New Regionalism  “institutional mechanisms Hemispheric Social Mesa de that afford Articulacion some civil Alliance’s opposition to de society groups Asociaciones voice and the North American Nacionales y Some influence Redes de technocratic Free Trade ONGs de Citizen organizatio policy makking Agreement (NAFTA) America Diploma ns partner processes” Latina y El with Caribe cy governme Rainfore Regional Forum nts to st Interfait initiate Foundati h Youth social on Network change Migra Others, s nt dedicate themselve NGO Forum Strategies And Tactics Of s to Global New specialized Forum Organization causes.  Their Challenges to New Regionalis m Contemporary Challenges to Regionalism  Regionalism faces multiple The challenges Continuing resurgence of Argument to which Differing visions the militant financial member countries of what nationalism crisis Forcing should sacrifice their regionalism and populism. countries like sovereignty for the should be for. Greece to sake of regional The refusal to others may see dismantle NATO consider stability Recently the leaving the Philippines, Thailand, democracy’s after the collapse Union to gain Indonesia demanded tedious of the Soviet Union, for more flexibility the other countries procedures is example has in their about democratized an obstacle to Brexit- economic UK become the basis adopt a more opening efficiency voting to policy. of the anti-NATO attitude to international others may not. leave the rhetoric of European criticism. Vladimir Putin in Russia Union in a These challenges move. is what makes a region relationship strong, it tests the on how can a country resolve problems within its References: “ Claudio, The Contemporary World ”  Acknowledgment This is power point was a class project