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A World of Regions
A World of Regions
PRESENTED BY
PERATER, ALMA, L.
OVIERA, EDMAR
Countries, Regions, and Globalization
SWITZERLAND
SINGAPORE
COUNTRIES RESPOND ECONOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY
DISADVANTAGES
ADVANTAGES
• Regionalism has a better • The possible disadvantage for each
opportunities to solve problems. individual city or country to lose their
respective independence and/or
• A process, and must be treated identity. They will became an
as an "emergent, socially dependent in making decision.
constituted phenomenon". • It can be too inclusive and keep
new individuals out.
Non-State Regionalism
• Is the organization that is not hold by the government which rely on the
power of individuals like private sector included financial services, law
firms, estate agents and etc.
• It also provide essential serves to people in community or society because
not all essential things will prove by the government. New regionalism
advocate such NGO Global Forum see these issues reflection of flowed
economic development and environmental models.
• Economic development are market based, profit-driven, and hardly
concerned with social welfare, especially among poor Challenges New
regionalist is the discord that may emerge (e.g. disagreement surface over
issues like gender and religion.
Contemporary Challenges to Regionalism
• Regionalism faces multiple challenges, the most serious of which is the
resurgence of militant nationalism and populism.
• Western governments may see regional organisations not simply as
economic formations but also as democratization. Instruments of political.
• Non-Western and developing societies however, may have different view
regarding globalisation, development and d democracy. Singapore, China
and Russia see democracy as an obstacle to the implementation and
deepening of economic globalisation because constant public inquiry
about economic projects and lengthy debate slow down implementation or
lead to unclear outcomes.