1. How regionalism can benefit Asia; world?

Regionalism is the political movement with the aim to preserve or to gain cultural or economic self-
reliance (or both).Regional cooperation, effectively structured and implemented, is a powerful new tool
in Asia’s policy arsenal. It can help Asia address regional challenges as well as provide stronger
foundations for its global role. An integrated Asia can:

• link the competitive strengths of its diverse economies in order to boost their productivity and sustain
the region’s exceptional growth;

• connect the region’s capital markets to enhance financial stability, reduce the cost of capital, and
improve opportunities for sharing risks;

• cooperate in setting exchange rate and macroeconomic policies in order to minimize the effects of
global and regional shocks and to facilitate the resolution of global imbalances;

• pool the region’s foreign exchange reserves to make more resources available for investment and
development;

• exercise leadership in global decision making to sustain the open global trade and financial systems
that have supported a half century of unparalleled economic development;

• build connected infrastructure and collaborate on inclusive development to reduce inequalities within
and across economies and thus to strengthen support for pro-growth policies; and

• create regional mechanisms to manage cross-border health, safety, and environmental issues better.

WORLD

The rest of the world could benefit, too. So long as Asia’s economies continue to integrate not just with
each other, but also with the rest of the world, sustained Asian dynamism, strengthened by regional
cooperation, could bolster Asia’s role as a new and stabilizing engine of global economic growth. There
are many reasons why Asia is likely to remain outward-looking—not least because its economy is in
large part built on economies of scale and scope in manufacturing and so requires global markets to
perform at its potential. Indeed, because an integrated Asia will continue to have a powerful stake in the
global economy, it would have both an incentive and the leverage to play a bigger role in keeping global
markets open and vibrant. An integrated Asia can:

• generate productivity gains, new ideas, and competition that boost economic growth and raise
incomes across the world;

• contribute to the efficiency and stability of global financial markets by making Asian capital markets
stronger and safer, and by maximizing the productive use of Asian savings;

• diversify sources of global demand, helping to stabilize the world economy and diminish the risks
posed by global imbalances and downturns in other major economies;
• provide leadership to help sustain open global trade and financial systems; and

• create regional mechanisms to manage health, safety, and environmental issues better, and thus
contribute to more effective global solutions of these problems. 2

2. How do state actors play their roles in the global interstate arena?

State Actors are nations/countries which are also known as “states”. They have sovereignty over their
own territory and that sovereignty is recognized on the international stage by
international organizations such as the United Nations. State Actors are political machineries or state
representative who act on behalf of the state. Obviously they are owned and controlled by the
government. Examples are governmental organizations, state officials, state representatives.

Imagine the international community as a chess board. Each piece represents a state actor. More
specifically, each state actor has to be independent and self-sufficient in terms of resources, military,
political system and must importantly, each state actor can decide it's interests as well as it's diplomatic
strategies itself. In other words, state Actors play it's role in international arena without any external
intervention (ideal speaking of T. Nguyen, 2018).

3. Why do state/s make interstate agreements/compacts?

Some reasons:

• Unlike federally imposed mandates that often dictate unfunded and rigid requirements, interstate
compacts provide a state- developed structure for collaborative and dynamic action, while building
consensus among the states and evolving to meet new and increased demands over
time. compact'smember states.

• An interstate compact is an agreement between two or more states of the United States that is
approved by those states' respective legislatures, and, if required based on the subject matter of
the compact, consented to by the US Congress. Compacts that receive congressional consent become
federal law.

4. How does extradition work to maintain interstate relations?

States and the federal government can seek to bring state-hopping criminals to justice through a process
called extradition.Extradition laws give a state the ability to hand someone over to another state for
purposes of criminal trial or punishment.  Extradition can occur between two states or between two
countries.

Extradition is the legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one State is returned to that State. This
was designed to PREVENT A PERSON FROM ESCAPUNG JUSTICE BY FLEEUNH A STATE.

5. Why is there a global divide?

The “double divide” is caused by political power, economic dependency, and importation/exportation of
resources. The transition of industrial production to cheaper labor sources, international media, and
expanding international trade and communication have in some ways made the world smaller, yet in
other ways made the gaps between nations larger by creating greater dependency of poor nations to
wealthy nations.

Both colonial imperialism and capitalism as causes for inequality. For this reason, stated that political
power, meaning the political systems throughout history that held the most power, were root causes of
the double divide, not just capitalism or colonial imperialism. As a result of the political power, poor
nations became economically dependent on wealthier nations. Mentioneling resources because a factor
in why wealthy countries begin to take interest in poor countries is often cheap labor and available
resources. For instance, Sernau provides Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea as two examples. Oil and
diamonds were the main reasons wealthy countries had an interest in these nations which led to various
inequalities. Agreeing that technology has played a crucial role in lengthening the divide between
nations by aiding in their expansion efforts. However, in addition to capitalism, the role of imperial
colonialism and national resources also need to be taken into account in this question.

6. How do development gaps become the reasons for global divide? Present Issue/situation.

The gap is generally caused by rich countriesbeing able to exploit the poorer countries as they have the
dominant political power to be able to do so. As a result, the poorer  countriessuffer from lack of
resources and spiral into poverty cycles which widen the development gap.

Issue:

The gap between the ‘North’ and ‘South’

Despite very significant development gains globally which have raised many millions of people out of
absolute poverty, there is substantial evidence that inequality between the world’s richest and poorest
countries is widening. In 1820 western Europe's per capita income was three times bigger than Africa’s
but by 2000 it was thirteen times as big. In addition, in 2013, Oxfam reported that the richest 85 people
in the world owned the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population.

Today the world is much more complex than the Brandt Line depicts as many poorer countries have
experienced significant economic and social development. However, inequality within countries has also
been growing and some commentators now talk of a ‘Global North’ and a ‘Global South’ referring
respectively to richer or poorer communities which are found both within and between countries.

For example, whilst India is still home to the largest concentration of poor people in a single nation it
also has a very sizable middle class and a very rich elite. There are many causes for these inequalities
including the availability of natural resources; different levels of health and education; the nature of a
country’s economy and its industrial sectors; international trading policies and access to markets; how
countries are governed and international relationships between countries; conflict within and between
countries; and a country’s vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change.