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Regionalization: the growth of societal integration within a given region,
including the undirected processes of social and economic interaction among the units It is ab dynamic process;
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ab continuing process of forming regions as geopolitical units, as organized political cooperation within a particular group of states, and/or as regional communities such as pluralistic
security communities •
Regionalism: the proneness of the governments and people of two or more states to establish voluntary associations and to pool together resources material and non material)in order to create common functional and institutional arrangements Best described as a process occurring in a given geographical region by which
different types of actors come to share certain fundamental values and norms. • These actors also participate in a growing network of economic, cultural,
scientific, diplomatic, political and military interactions
• Regionalism has mushroomed across all
parts of the world however theories to explain these developments are limited– Most theories have been developed under the
dominant European contexts • (because largely regionalism is located there and the successful story is mostly limited to Europe and later in North America)
– The theories are considered as western approaches to regionalism
• they are hardly relevant to the development of regionalism outside the west.
4.6.1. The Old Regionalism • Regionalism is ab voluntary
and comprehensive process • A predominantly
post WWII phenomena Emerged
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