ACTIVITY NO.

6 

A. Write the following acronyms in full words. 

1. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

2. OPEC  Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

3. NAM Non- Aligned Movement

4. IMF  International Monetary Fund

5. ASEAN  Association of South East Asian Nations

6. NGOs  Non-Governmental Organizations

7. NAFTA  North America Free Trade Agreement

8. CARAM  Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility

9. APEC  Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

10.AEC  ASEAN Economic Community

1. List all 120 members of NAM

Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania

2. List all members of ASEAN

Afghanistan (1961) Iraq (1961) Nepal (1961)
Kuwait (1964) Jordan (1964) North Korea (1975)
Kuwait (1964) Laos (1964) Oman (1973)
Lebanon (1961) Malaysia (1970) Pakistan (1979)
Maldives (1976) Mongolia (1993) Palestine (1976)
Myanmar (1961) Bahrain (1973) Philippines (1993)
Bangladesh (1973) Bhutan (1973) Qatar (1973)
Brunei Darussalam (1993) Cambodia (1961) Saudi Arabia (1961)
India (1961) Indonesia (1961) Singapore (1970)
Iran (1979) Sri Lanka (1961) Syria (1964)
Thailand (1993) East Timor (2003) Turkmenistan (1995)
United Arab Emirates (1970) Uzbekistan (1993) Vietnam (1976)
Yemen (1990)

EXERCISE 

1. What is Region? 
Regions may be defined in terms of single or multiple features or in terms that approach the
total content of human occupancy of an area. The most common features in social science are
ethnic, cultural, or linguistic (Provence), climatic or topographical (the Tennessee Valley),
industrial or urban (the Ruhr), economic specialization (the Cotton Belt of North America),
administrative units (standard government regions in Great Britain), and international
political areas (the Middle East).

2. What is non-state regionalism? 

Non-state regionalism are individuals or organizations that have powerful economic, political
or social power and are able to influence at a national and sometimes international level while
not belonging to or ally themselves to any particular country or state.
 3. What is Warsaw pact? 
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven
other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968).

4. What is anti-NATO? 
Opposition to NATO tends to mainly come from workers movements, environmental groups
and green parties, and socialist and communist political parties. They believe NATO to be
antithetical to global peace and stability, environmentally destructive, and an obstacle to
nuclear disarmament.

ASSESSMENT 

Choose a regional division and trace how it has changed from the time before European
powers like Britain and Spain ruled the world, then during the era of colonialism, until its
independence.
List what kinds of changes happened to these areas (once participates, then provinces, then
republics) and the people who inhabit there. Finally, see how the nations and republics that
were born from the ashes of colonialism after World War II looked back on the past era to
explain their own histories.

ASSESSMENT 6.1 

Choose a regional division and trace how it has changed from the time before European
powers like Britain and Spain ruled the world, then during the era of colonialism, until its
independence.
List what kinds of changes happened to these areas (once participates, then provinces, then
republics) and the people who inhabit there. Finally, see how the nations and republics that
 were born from the ashes of colonialism after World War II looked back on the past era to
explain their own histories.

1. What is New Regionalism? 

New regionalism, shift in national systems of administration and cultural, economic, and
political organization following the Cold War.

2. How is regionalism different from and yet a part of globalization?

Globalization affects economic, political processes at the global level, but regionalization
involves, first of all consideration of various events and the needs of specific areas of the
country.

3. What is the difference between state-to-state regionalism and non-state regionalism?

State to state regionalism means regionalized unitary state, is a term used to denote a type of
state. that is formally unitary but where high degree of political power has been highly
decentralized to regional governments. In many cases, the regions are based on long standing
cultural divisions.
non state regionalism is also called as non-state nation or stateless nation. An ethnic group or
nation that does not possess its own state (state to state) and is not the majority population in
any nation state. The term non state implies that the group should have such a state.

4. What triggers various regionalist projects?

Development of globalization, existing levels of interdependence and trade in international
economic structures especially in the leading provinces.

REFLECTION

KNOW WANT LEARNED

Politico- administrative process
by which regions emerge as
relevant units of analysis for
economic and political activity
and welfare and service
provision. devolution, regions
being the objects of governmental
The process of transferring power from
the central government to the regions,
for a better application of the
subsidiarity principle, within the
framework of national or federal
solidarity.
A political ideology that
prioritizes the home region,
often giving it more importance
than the national whole. It can
have positive effects on local
development and well-being but
can also negatively affect
reforms. national unity and sometimes
lead to conflicts.