Latin America s New Regionalism

Globalism and regionalism have accelerated.

We view regionalism as an important complement to multilateralism, especially when open regionalism does not lead to exclusiveness.

Everywhere outside Paris, calls for decentralization and regionalism grow.

The Pacific Plan promotes three main approaches to regionalism.

5. There is a resurgence of both multilateralism and regionalism.

The memorandum also addressed two additional features associated with regionalism the question of universalism and regionalism in the context of human rights law and the relationship between universalism and regionalism in the context of the collective security system under the Charter of the United Nations.

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In some regions, the desire to expand markets has driven regionalism.

It was an open style regionalism and not a trading bloc.

They have tried everything, from nationalism to regionalism, from communism to capitalism.

Regionalism in this sense is often propounded by sociological approaches to international law.

Two leaders who pushed for regionalism in Asia have departed because of domestic politics.

Regionalism is neither incompatible with nor an alternative to internationalism as expressed through the United Nations.

In this troubled part of the world, the choice is, quite simply, one between regionalism and barbarism.

21. On international economic trends, the Foreign Ministers noted a global shift towards regionalism in recent years.

Nations should avoid economic regionalism and the formation of trade blocs, which might discriminate against non member countries.

Open regionalism should serve as a defence mechanism against eventual protectionist pressures in markets outside the region. 10

When corruption, regionalism, and nepotism is rampant in the country and everybody lies, then there is not another choice.

Regionalism has moved to the foreground of global politics except in the US, where the two are seen as antithetical.

ASEAN has been the hub for Asian regionalism, but some in Australia have proposed focusing only on the larger countries.

Mention of regionalism as a factor contributing to fragmentation should also be included in the introduction of the final report.

Regionalism has received a new impetus. The United Nations should extend its fullest cooperation to these regional trends and initiatives.

The work has focused on the nature of current geopolitical change and the tendencies towards both macro and micro regionalism.

In the second half of the twentieth century, Europe had the chance to build a much more benevolent form of regionalism.

The first regionalism as a set of approaches and methods for examining international law was the most general and broadest sense.

Changes in the balance of forces between the Powers that dominated the old order have allowed nationalism and regionalism to develop.

In order to counter that tendency, regionalism was encouraged in terms of culture, but was discouraged as a platform for politics.

The third situation regionalism as the pursuit of geographical exceptions to universal rules of international law seems more relevant in this context.

The former universalism and regionalism in human rights raised philosophical questions of cultural relativism which fall outside the scope of the Study.

His delegation also concurred with the view that regionalism was only a specific sub item of the general issue of lex specialis.

Side by side with the globalization process, or maybe as a byproduct of it, is a resurgence of regionalism throughout the world.

Whatever success has been recorded by that programme is a credit to regionalism, since the programme was instituted with enormous regional inputs.

Japan s former Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, and Australia s former premier, Kevin Rudd, both championed regionalism from early in their short time in office.

In some fields such as trade, for example, regionalism was influencing the general law in such great measure that it needed special highlighting.

On the basis of the discussion, the Study Group agreed that regionalism should not have a separate entry in the final substantive report.

The countries members of the Council were committed to the principle that quot open regionalism quot must continue to govern regional cooperation and investment.

A memorandum by the Chairman of the Study Group had noted that the expression regionalism did not feature prominently in the literature of international law.

Consequently, we propose pursuing an open regionalism that would allow us better to attune our various economies to the characteristics of the increasingly globalized economy.

The wave of regionalism experienced by the region during the 1990s, sparked intraregional trade for some time, stimulating in this way gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

10 United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, quot Open regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean quot (LC G.1801), p. 8.

The reduction of tariffs among ASEAN countries parallelled their programmes of trade liberalization at the multilateral level, with quot open regionalism quot as their guiding principle.

While members noted that regionalism generally fell under the problem of lex specialis, some still felt that this was not all that could be said about it.

None the less, the resort to regionalism has not diminished the need for an effective global framework to strengthen international cooperation within the context of the Charter.

After the War, it was a prime EU objective to moderate nationalism and promote regionalism in Germany, a feat that was accomplished to the benefit of all Europeans.