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Article: Collective action problems and regional integration in ASEAN.(Association of Southeast Asian Nations )
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- Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Regionalism and regional integration have been one of the most dynamic phenomena in the current international setting. Since the early 1990s the initiative to develop and strengthen regional institutions has intensified on a global scale. This move led to the creation of the European Union (EU) in Europe, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in North America, and Mercosur in Latin America.
Regionalism has been of great importance in terms of international relations (IR) theory. Regional integration is an attempt to realize mutual gains from cooperation within a group of self-motivated states in an anarchic international system. In order to attain ...