PO232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Preferential Trading Area, North American Free Trade Agreement, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade
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Globalization: the world is becoming more interconnected and interdependent, that. This is done from those want to protect themselves from globalization. But what is a region? (in world politics terms) We"re talking about regions in international terms regions in international politics are usually thought of a collection of countries. Starting point (region) distinct geographical areas of the world, maybe sharing some cultural commonalities but there are no natural regions: borders of can change, be contested and vague. 2. regions can overlap: people can understand 1 and 2, but still end up taking regions for granted. A region of competing region (s & w, p. 5) Asia paci c can be understood in different ways and when people talk about it, it"s not obvious what people mean by it. Similarly, south east asia is used to refer to the same-ish part of the world this is incorrect in hall"s opinion, so it can be unclear what parts of the world are which.
