ASEAN AS AN EXAMPLE OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
KÜRESELLEŞEN DÜNYADA BÖLGESEL BİR ENTEGRASYON ÖRNEĞİ OLARAK ASEAN

Author : Hulusi Ekber KAYA
Number of pages : 230-243

Abstract

All around the world, especially after the Second World War, with the driving force of globalization, integration movements started to take place rapidly between countries. Integration initiatives, which gained an economic and political outlook in particular, started primarily with intensification of relations between countries that are geographically close to each other. Since its establishment in 1967, the Southeast Asian Nations Association (ASEAN) has been one of the most successful examples of regional integration in the world. While ASEAN dealt with issues such as stopping conflicts and achieving political stability in the years it was founded, these issues were replaced by economic cooperation in the post-Cold War period. In recent years, the shift of the economic power axis from west to east has also a strategic importance for ASEAN. Aware of this importance, ASEAN pursues a defense policy against other economic forces, particularly China, in the region and strives to take part in a globally integrated system that has successfully completed its integration. In this study, ASEAN which is an important integration of Asia Pacific region which has a rising trend in the world will be examined in general terms.

Keywords

Integration, Regionalization, Globalization, ASEAN

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