POLS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: East Asia Summit, Proliferation Security Initiative, Internment Of Japanese Americans
22 Aug 2016
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In international relations, it general indicates the multilateral groupings of neighboring nations (eg. europe, middle east, east asia) The primary common sense usage connotes physical and contiguity and societal homogeneity. Within state actors, contiguity and proximity seems to be an important prerequisite. Cognitive definition: a complexity of attitudes, loyalties and ideas which concentrates the individual and collective minds of people(s) upon what they perceive as their" region. Fundamental definition: a functional relation that bundles multiple nations with their political, economic and cultural inheritance, often based on the geographical advantage. Free trade area, customer"s union, common markets: economic interdependence. Region united by common security problems: a group of states whose primary security concerns link together sufficiently closely . Functional regionalism: anti-terrorism cooperation, proliferation security initiative (psi) Case 1 east asia summit : asean + 3 process. Asean + japan, china, korea (3: east asia summit. Asean + 3 + australia, new zealand, india.
