Contemporary

Challenges on
Regionalism
Contemporary Challenges on Regionalism

-Regionalism faces multiple challenges

-most serious is the resurgence of militant

nationalism and populism.

- the refusal to dismantle NATO after the collapse

of the Soviet Union has become the basis of the
Anti-NATO rhetoric of Vladimir Putin.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty, NATO is a security alliance of 30 countries
from North America and Europe. NATO’s fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies’ freedom and
security by political and military means.
-relationship of UNITED STATES with NATO has
become problematic

-most crisis-ridden regional organizationof today is

the Europian Union.
-Greece consider leaving the Union to gain more
flexibility in their economic policy.

-Anti-immigrant sentiment and a populist campaign

against Europe have already led to the United
Kingdom voting to leave the EU in a move the
media has formed the “Brexit”
In Chapter 8, Michela Ceccorulli looks at how international migration
has been increasingly represented as a ‘security threat’ in the interre-
gional dialogue between the EU, the US and North African countries.
Providing a wealth of empirical evidence through two case studies of
regional cooperation on migration (one focusing on the EU–US part-
nership after the 9/11 attacks and one looking at the relationship
between the EU, its member states and North Africa), this chapter argues
that interregional policies in the field of migration management have
revealed serious tensions among the various parties involved, often
weakening the capacity of the EU to speak with one voice and oper-
ate consistently, thus resulting in a haphazard approach and allowing
for mismanagement and human rights abuses
-ASEAN members to disagree over the extent to
which member countries should sacrifice their
sovereignty for the sake of regional stability.

-The Association’s link with EAst Asia has also been

problematic. Recently, ASEAN countries also
disagreed over how to relate to China .
-With the unable to get the other countries to
support to condemnation of China’s occupation of
West Philippines Sea . Cambodia and Laos led the
opposition favoring diplomacy over confrontation,
but the real reason was the dramatic increase of
Chinese investments and economic aid to these
countries.
A final challenge pertains to differring visions of what
regionalism should be for:

Western governments may see regional organizations

not simply as economic formations but also as
instruments of political democratization.

Non-Western and developing countries however may

have different perspective.
Singapore, China , Russia see Democracy as
obstacle to implementation and deepening of
economic globalization.
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