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    Regional organizations and alliances form for various political and economic reasons. Countries join to pool resources, expand trade leverage, protect independence, and address common challenges like economic crises or military threats. Examples include the EU promoting cooperation among European countries, OPEC regulating oil production and prices, and ASEAN providing greater unity in Southeast Asia during economic downturns.

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    Regional organizations and alliances form for various political and economic reasons. Countries join to pool resources, expand trade leverage, protect independence, and address common challenges like economic crises or military threats. Examples include the EU promoting cooperation among European countries, OPEC regulating oil production and prices, and ASEAN providing greater unity in Southeast Asia during economic downturns.

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    Regional organizations and alliances form for various political and economic reasons. Countries join to pool resources, expand trade leverage, protect independence, and address common challenges like economic crises or military threats. Examples include the EU promoting cooperation among European countries, OPEC regulating oil production and prices, and ASEAN providing greater unity in Southeast Asia during economic downturns.

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    Commission on Higher Education

    Technical Institute of Business and Arts

    A WORLD OF REGIONS

    THE CONTEMPORAY WORLD

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

    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

    • 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

    REGIONALIS M

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

    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.”

    Economic and political respond of Countries to Globalization

    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’
    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.

    WARSAW PACT

    • a regional alliance created by Soviet Union

    • Soviet Union imploded in December 1991 but NATO remains in place.

    2. Pool their resources, get better return for their exports and expand their leverage against
    trading partners.

    • 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.

    Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

    3. Protect their independence from the pressure of superpower politics.


    Non-Aligned Movement
    • 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.
    4. Economic Crisis compels countries to come together

    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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