BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY

JPLPC MALVAR CAMPUS

THE WORLD OF
REGIONS
GLOBAL DIVIDES: THE
NORTH AND THE SOUTH
(FOCUS: LATIN AMERICA)
GED 104

MARVIN ARIOLA ATIENZA, LPT, MAED

GUEST LECTURER II
GLOBAL SOUTH
refers to the regions of Latin
America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania
mostly low- income and often
politically or culturally
marginalized.
It may also be called the "developing
World" such as Africa, Latin America,
and the developing countries in Asia,
"developing countries," "less
developed countries," and "less
developed regions” including poorer
"southern" regions of wealthy
"northern" countries.
GLOBAL SOUTH

In general, Global South refers

to these countries'
"interconnected histories of
colonialism, neo-imperialism,
and differential economic and
social change through which
large inequalities in living
standards, life expectancy, and
access to resources are
maintained.
THREE PRIMARY CONCEPTS OF
GLOBAL SOUTH

• It refers to economically disadvantaged

nation-states and as a post-cold war
alternative to “Third World".
2. The Global South captures a deterritorialized
geography of capitalism’s externalities and
means to account for subjugated peoples within
the borders of wealthier countries, such that there
are economic Souths in the geographic North and
Norths in the geographic South.
3. It refers to the resistant imaginary of a
transnational political subject that results from a
shared experience of subjugation under
contemporary global capitalism.
ASIAN REGIONALISM

refers to the
decentralization of
political powers or
competencies from a
higher towards a lower
political level.
ASIAN REGIONALISM

More specifically, it distinguishes

between top-down from bottom-up
regionalism where top - down
regionalism describes the
decentralization of competencies or the
establishment of regional institutions
by the state while bottom -up includes
all patterns of endeavors toward
political decentralization from within
the particular region
VIEWS OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE ASIA
PACIFIC AND SOUTH ASIA

THE ASIA PACIFIC AND SOUTH ASIA

refer together to the regions of East (or Northeast)
Asia, South Asia, the Pacific Islands, and South
Asia.
It includes some of the world’s most economically
developed states such as Japan, South Korea,
Singapore, and Taiwan, and highly impoverished
countries such as Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal. It
also includes the largest and most populous
states on the globe including China and India and
some of the world’s smallest such as the Maldives
and Bhutan.
VIEWS OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE ASIA
PACIFIC AND SOUTH ASIA

THE ASIA PACIFIC AND SOUTH ASIA

The Asia and South Pacific have emerged

over the past decade as a new political
force in the world. The economies of
Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and
Pakistan have strategic relevance in
today’s global system. They are the
focused of global powers outside of the
region.
VIEWS OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE ASIA
PACIFIC AND SOUTH ASIA

THE ASIA PACIFIC AND SOUTH ASIA

TA foreign policy shift called “Pacific Pivot”
was implemented by the United States to
commit more resources and attention to the
region. This shift which is also called “Atlantic
Century” was termed “Pacific Century” by US
Secretary of States Hilary Clinton. He stated
that the Asia Pacific has become a key driver
of global politics. It is the home to several
key allies and important emerging powers
like China, India, and Indonesia
VIEWS OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE ASIA
PACIFIC AND SOUTH ASIA

THE ASIA PACIFIC AND SOUTH ASIA

Asia was the central global force in

the early modern world economy. It
was the site of the most important
trade routes and in some places
more advanced in technology than
West such as science and medicine.
THE REGION-MAKING IN SOUTHEAST
ASIA AND MIDDLE-CLASS FORMATION:
THE THIRD WAVE

Regionalization entails complex and dynamic

interactions between and among
governmental and nongovernmental actors
which resulted to hybrid East Asia. The main
engines of hybridization are explained by the
successive waves of regional economic
development that is powered by
developmental states and national and
transnational capitalism that nurtured sizeable
middle-classes that share a lot in common in
terms of professional lives and their lifestyles, in
fashion, leisure, and entertainment, in their
aspirations and dreams.
THE REGION-MAKING IN SOUTHEAST
ASIA AND MIDDLE-CLASS FORMATION:
THE THIRD WAVE

The middle-class occupies different

positions in their respective societies
as well as in relation to their nation-
states as they constitute the
expanding regional consumer market.