Regionalism

Question 1

What is a region?

Answer 1

• group of states linked together by a geographic relationship
• economic/political factors
• linguistic similarities
• shared culture and history

Question 2

Regionalism

Answer 2

• Joseph Nye - ‘formation of interstate groupings on the basis of regions’.
• policy where states co-operate and co-ordinate strategy within a given region

Question 3

Regionalism vs Regionalisation

Answer 3

• Regionalism - political process - instituational forms, state driven
  - economic/political goals
• Regionalisation - processes by whcih societies and economies become intergrated
• awareness of similarities
• cultural?

Question 4

Regional organisations

Answer 4

• focused around security or economics
• becoming increasingly multi focused
• eg. NATO, EU

Question 5

Old vs new regionalism

Answer 5

• Old - state led, protectionist, focused on single areas
• New - globalisation, multipurpose, involvement of non-state actors
• Inter-religionism - relations between regions

Question 6

Reasons for regionalism

Answer 6

• provide ways of managing participation in international relations
• globalisation
• trade and security
• oppportunities to cooperate conflict
  BUT can be reversed, eg. Brexit