ASIAN REGIONALISM

• Presentation by:
• Maria Rossana Mayor • Angelo Alban • Andrea Joy Palacio Paredes
 WHAT IS REGIONALISM?

• Defined as a political ideology favors a specific region over a greater area. It

usually results due to political separations, religions geography, cultural
boundaries, linguistic regions, and managerial divisions.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REGIONALIZATION
AND GLOBALIZATION

Regionalization
• a process of dividing an area into smaller segments called
religions

Globalization
• a process by which the people of the world are unified into a
single society and function together
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REGIONALISM AND
REGIONALIZATION

• Regionalism
• Is the theory or practice of regional rather than central system of
administration or economic culturalbor political affiliation
• Regionalization
• Division of a nation into states or provinces
WHY COUNTRIES FORM REGIONAL
ORGANIZATION?

• ASIAN REGINALISM
• Product of economic interaction between Asian countries.
EVOLUTION OF ASIAN REGIONALISM

• In August 8, 1967, the ASEAN was born with five original members:
Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore.
ASEAN

• ASEAN’s first summit meeting was held in 1976 Regional economic forum
established with the United States’ strong support
• APEC – Asia – Pacific Economic Cooperatiion
• In 1997, the ASEAN plus Three ( Japan, South Korea, and China ) was
instituted .
• In 2000s Japan and China competed over how to adapt to the relentless tide
of
EAST ASIAN SUMMIT

• a regional forum held annually by leaders of 16 countries in the East Asian,

Southeast Asian and South Asian Regions
• In 2010, the East Asian Summit decided to add two more members, the
United States and Russia
THEREE PROPOSITIONS OF ASIAN
REGIONALISM
1. GEOGRAPHICAL ASIA IS TOO DIVERSE
FOR CULTURAL ASIA

• Cultural homogeneity is not guarantee for regionalist community formation.

GEOGRAPHICAL ASIA IS TOO SMALL FOR
GLOBALIZING ASIA

• It is ironical to say that Asia is too small for Asia.

3. GEOGRAPHICAL ASIA IS TOO
CONFLICTUAL INTERNALLY FOR STRATEGIC
ASIA
• action tends to be taken without explicitly distinguishing foes from friends