WEEK 6 - ASIAN REGIONALIZATION

Cards (19)

  • In International Relations, it generally indicates the multilateral groupings of neighboring nations.

    REGION
  • In region contiguity and proximity are important prerequisites for creating and maintaining a sense of unity
    TRUE
  • Regionalism refers to the process by which countries within a particular region come together to form a regional organization or bloc.
  • The term “region” is used to refer to an area that has some common characteristics or shared interests among its members.
  • A region can be defined as a geographical space with certain political, economic, social, cultural, historical, linguistic, religious, ethnic, or other similarities among its inhabitants.
  • The term “region” is used interchangeably with terms such as sub-regions, neighborhoods, and geographic areas.
  • A region can be defined based on geographical boundaries such as landmasses, bodies of water, or mountain ranges.
  • A region can be defined based on various factors such as culture, language, religion, ethnicity, history, economic development, political systems, geography, climate, natural resources, and security concerns.
  • Free Trade Area, customers union, common markets
    ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
  • Free Trade Area, customers union, common markets
    SECURITY COMPLEX
  • Environment, Transnational Issues...etc 
    FUNCTIONAL RELATIONS
  • ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, SECURITY COMPLEX, FUNCTIONAL RELATIONS are all components of
    FUNCTIONAL REGION
  • A complex of attitudes, loyalties and ideas which concentrates the individual and collective minds of people(s) upon what they perceive as 'their' region
    Cognitive Definition
  • A functional relation that bundles múltiple nations with their political, economic and cultural inheritance, often based on the geographical advantage
    Functional Definition
  • APEC, ARF, ASEM
    Mega/Wide-Regionalism
  • ASEAN Japan-China-Korea
    Sub-Regionalism
  • Anti-Terrorism Cooperation Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)
    Functional Regionalism
  • accelerate economic growth promote regional peace and stability contain the spread of communism

    ASEAN Declaration BANGKOK DECLARATION OF 1967
  • Compared with Southeast Asia and West Europe, Northeast Asia has lagged behind in developing mechanisms or institutions of: 

    coordination cooperation integration