2006-10-23 03:40:29 · 3 answers · asked by chuchu 1 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
It refers to the gathering of nations into regional groupings. It is partly political, partly economic. The closest-integrated such group is of course the European Union, 25 countries (soon to be 27) sharing a lot of politics, taxes and a common market. Then there is ASEAN, a group of ten SE Asian countries; NAFTA, the N American free trade area, which is only economic; the Arab League, which is pretty much only political; and there is a South Asian group too.
Basically the idea is countries uniting across borders on whatever they are willing to agree about. First steps towards the coming unity of the world (which will take a few hundred years to complete).
2006-10-24 06:47:20 · answer #1 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite briefly: globalization is what happens in a free market world. If tariffs are abolished and/or insignificant, then countries will specialize and international trade will flourish. As far as I know the environmentalists' and protectionists' (e.g. generally leftist and/or nationalist political parties') opposition to this is regionalism. Regionalism entails locally producing stuff that is used locally, especially food. An argument for this could be the protection of the environment due to less transportation (environmental argument) and protecting local farmers and producers (protectionist argument). In this sense the two things, globalization and regionalization, are somewhat contradictory, although regionalism in all aspects of the economy is obviously wasteful and no one wants it. It's rather an agricultural thing. What I'm tryna say with this is that the two are not mutually exclusive.
2016-05-22 01:03:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a kind of nationalism, i think ...
2006-10-23 08:52:06 · answer #3 · answered by Ahmet T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋