The Difference Between the Arabs and the South and Southeast Asians!

The difference between the Arabs and the South and Southeast

Asians!

    The lure of regionalism — a belief in regional co-operation and

integration as a method to advance a region’s shared political, economic

or security interests — has had profound effects on the foreign policies of

all countries. The conventional wisdom is that such collaborative efforts

will serve as the building blocks of a future Economic Community, as

well as Unions. Many attempts at uniting as a region are informed by the

experiences of the European Union and North America. But the argument

is also put forward that many regional co-operation efforts are

‘homegrown’, an organic development, given specific historic, political,

economic, regional and global contexts. In this paper I am going to

compare between four world regions in Asia and Africa, which are

represented by four associations Saarc, Asean, Arab League and the

GCC.

In this paper I am going to compare between four world regions in Asia

and Africa, which are represented by four associations Saarc, Asean,

Arab League and the GCC. Asean and Saarc represent southeast and

South Asia, while the GCC represents the gulf countries and the Arab

League represents the Arab countries.

Saarc was established in the late 1970 when the president of Bangladesh

president Ziaur Rahman proposed the creation of trade bloc consisting of

South Asian countries. Saarc contains eight countries i.e. Bangladesh,

India, Pakistan, Sir Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan and Afghanistan that

joined the association in 2005. Asean was established in 1967 that

consists of ten members (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,

Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao Pdr, Myanmar and

Vietnam). Together these two associations count for 30% of the world

population. The gulf cooperation council was established in 25 may 1981,

in Saudi Arabia between the Gulf States: Bahrain,... [continues]

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