The differential strategy between region and regional integration
The differential strategy between region and
regional integration
Before making an analysis on the specific issue
of SAARC as a regional integration process, we can highlight the connotation of
region and regional integration which is significant in this context. There is
no denying the fact that on collective research regions are used in shorter
sense having encountered external cooperation among regions in the field of
trade, commerce, economics, export and import. But regional integration may be
used in broader sense as because integrations is needed in order to manoeuvre
the basic cooperation system in relation to the relevant regions in which the
respective fields of regions are settled down virtually.
Regional integration has become a very common
way of co-operation among states in present day international relations.
Generally a ‘region’ is an area where some geographically proximate states join
together to achieve their common objectives. As I mentioned earlier, in the
present time more or less every nation-state, strong or weak, is a
member of a regional system. But there are some states which exist on the
borderline between two regions. That is one of the reasons for those
states not joining in any regional
co-operation arrangements. Although geographical considerations are an
important factor for the formation of a region, other factors-for example,
social, economic, political, historical, and organisational - are also
important. So we can say that a region
consists of two or more
proximate states and interacting states which have some common ethnic,
linguistic, cultural, social, and/or historical bonds, and whose sense of
identity is sometimes increased by the actions and attitudes towards those of
states external to the region .
The member states of SAARC are geographically
proximate with each other. These states have something in common. For example,
they have some common social and historical bonds. These states have common
colonial past. Those states (for example Nepal )
who were not under colonial rule have also been influenced by that rule owing
to geographical proximity with India Afghanistan neither belongs to the Middle
East nor to the South Asian group. These states exist on the
borderline between two regional systems.
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