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GLOBALISATION
OR REGIONALISATION?

Teodor FRUNZETI, PhD*

Globalisation and regionalisation represent

two of the key-concepts marking the analysis on
the strategic and security environment as well as
international relations evolution. Globalisation
and regionalisation are current processes whose
complexity gave birth to multiple controversies
and dilemmas, being seen by specialists in the
approaches theories on the two concepts as well
as the relation between them.
The analysis of the implications that the most
recent world events have on the evolution of
the globalisation and regionalisation processes
represents the key point of this article.
Key-words: globalisation; regionalisation;

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: globalisation and regionalisation.
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one hand,

* Lieutenant-general university professor PhD. Teodor FRUNZETI (tfrunzeti@unap.ro) is the

commandant and rector of Carol I National Defence University. A scholar with a PhD in military
sciences and a PhD in political sciences, he authored and co-authored a series of military, security

crisis; security; economy.

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that there are
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or another.
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Globalisation versus regionalisation

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Regionalisation
globalization

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Globalisation fosters regionalization

Regionalisation as a challenge or response to

globalisation

Globalisation encroaches upon regionalisation

Regionalisation and globalisation as parallel

processes

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The functionalist paradigm

Paradigms on the relationship between

globalisation and regionalisation

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interpretive paradigm, it is

the paradigm of radical humanism. It

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radical structuralist paradigm

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World War

Perspectives of globalisation
and regionalisation

what process
will prevail in the next period and what will be
the balance of power between globalisation and
regionalisation?
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operational.

economy:

technology:

society:

democracy:

Conclusions

security:

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support:

ecology:

NOTES:

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