December 5, 2012
, Sulaiman Azeez Olawale
Contents
I. Introduction................................................................................................................... | 2 | II. Literature Review....................................................................................................... | 3 | 1. Lyou’s Argument .............................................................................................................. | 3 | 2. Kim’s Argument .............................................................................................................. | 4 | III. Three Factors ............................................................................................................ | 6 | | 1. Hegemony Competition Among the U.S., China and Japan............. ............. ............. .... | 6 | | 2. No Common Security Threat ............................................................................................ | 10 | | 3. Norm of “Formal Inequality” and Non-intervention......................................................... | 13 | IV. Conclusion............................................................................................................... | 16 | V. Reference ......................................................................................................... ......... | 18 |
Ⅰ. Introduction
After the end of the Cold War, the world has consistently been in the trend of globalization. As a result, currently, all states are interdependent on each other and the number of regional organizations has risen. Due to the need of regional integration, European countries have established the European Community (EC) in 1957 and in 1994 it changed its name to the European Union (EU). The EC was formed with the goal of integrating European states politically and economically. It has been more than fifty years