ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Habitual Residence, Economic Community Of West African States, Allday
Document Summary
Regionalism region as a political and social construct. Theory or practice of coordinating social, economic or political activities within a geographical region comprising a number of states. Political and/or economic unit as a basis of cooperation and perhaps identity. Institutional dimension of coordination norms, rules and formal structures. Old regionalism" regional cooperation and integration across a range of dimensions e. g politics, economics and security. New regionalism emergence of regional trade blocs i. e world of competing trade blocs. Three types economic, security and political. But also refers to process of decentralization within countries e. g federalism and devolution. Ibero-american federation of ombudsman (fio: andean community, caricom, mercosur, organization of american states (oas, organization of eastern caribbean states (oecs, rio group. Asia and pacific: association of southeast asian nations (asean, pacific islands forum, south asian association for regional cooperation (saarc) Europe: european union, organisation for security and cooperation in europe (osce) Middle east and north africa: gulf cooperation council.
