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"Regional Organizations in Southeast Asia" published on by Oxford University Press.

The end of colonialism and the decline of Cold War bipolarity mean that the United States and the Soviet Union must find new ways of relating to a Third World that is growing increasingly influential and is seeking ways to be master of its own destinies. Over the past decade and more, there has been a marked growth in regional organizations within the Third World designed to deal with the related problems of solving internal disputes and reducing the role of outside powers in regional affairs. These organizations have mixed records, and some could pose threats to broader global interests, including those of the United States and the USSR. Nonetheless, the trend toward regionalization is pervasive, and in many cases regional groupings can deal with problems that the superpowers no longer can or want to handle. Moscow and Washington must judge each case on its own merits, but their general approach should be to let regional groupings carry as much of the burden as possible.

Instability and political repression are two reasons why many states in Africa are unable to develop. African regional organizations have the potential to encourage democracy, stability and development within their regions if they have the right tools. Using case studies of two major interventions by African regional organizations this thesis will determine what those tools may be. Both the intervention of ECOWAS into Liberia and the SADC into the DRC were rife with problems but they were able to bring some stability and even democracy to states in crisis. This thesis finds that African regional organizations can promote democracy and stability, but the focus is always on stability for the region. With strong institutions and mandates, policy agreement and strong leadership, African regional organizations can bring stability, development and even democracy to their regions. ; 2013-05-01 ; M.A. ; Sciences, Political Science ; Masters ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

Since World War II, the focus of power in the international labor movement is no longer in Europe. Events, in which American labor has played a significant role, have favored a definite trend toward decentralization and the strengthening of regional organization. This has been secured in part by the establishment of regional (Asian, European, Latin American) offices by inter national federations of unions in specific trades or industries, and in part by the creation of regional organizations in Europe, the Americas, and Asia by the In ternational Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The author discusses some of the problems involved in these trends, the specific difficulties which face the ex tension of the movement to Africa, and the rivalry between the leading world confederations of labor, the ICFTU and the Communist World Federation of Trade Unions.—Ed.

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Regional organizations (ROs), a key component of the global order, have become a significant tool for achieving foreign policy objectives of the member countries. Amidst the prevailing politico-strategic environment, a speckled range of national interests of the regional states and non-regional states has motivated or compelled the states to create, collaborate and participate in the functioning of ROs. India is associated with those ROs that possess objectives convenient in pursuit of its national interests and also identical to its foreign policy targets. In this context, this article argues that India's policy towards ROs is shaped by the Cold War and post-Cold War developments along with the emerging strategic and security environment in the twenty-first century. These developments have created a divergence or convergence of India's preferences and beliefs with other countries and have determined its participation in the ROs. It is participating actively in the functioning of ROs in pursuit of its national interests in diverse arenas. The ROs, especially South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and even European Union (EU) and Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) are the key instruments for India to achieve the objectives of respective Neighbourhood First Policy (NFP), Look East Policy (LEP), Act East Policy (AEP), Look North Policy (LNP), Connect Central Asia Policy (CCAP) and Indo-Pacific Vision (IPV) frameworks of its foreign policy towards South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Indo-Pacific and the globe. Apart from economic, strategic and security cooperation in the regional context, the ROs can help India in bolstering its image and status as a key power in global affairs.

Intro -- Non-Governmental Interests in International Regional Organizations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- 1 Non-governmental Interests in the International Legal Order: Recent Trends -- 2 Participation of Non-governmental Interests in International Organizations -- 2.1 The Un-organic Involvement of Non-governmental Interests and Its Particular Diffusion in Universal Organizations -- 2.2 The Organic Involvement of Non-governmental Interests and Its Significant Diffusion in Regional Organizations -- 3 Studies on the Participation of Non-governmental Interests in International Organizations -- 4 Methodology and Research Plan -- 1 Non-governmental Interests in Regional Organizations -- 1 Evolution in the Institutional Design of Regional Organizations: The Bipolar Institutional Structure and the Multipolar One -- 1.1 The Diffusion of the Bipolar Institutional Structure and the Multipolar One until the End of the 1980s -- 1.2 The Diffusion of the Bipolar Institutional Structure and the Multipolar One from the 1990s -- 2 Non-governmental Institutions: Concept and Criteria for Classification -- 2.1 Ratione Materiae Criterion: Parliamentary, Socio-economic and Territorial Institutions -- 2.2 Legal Criterion: Integrated Institutions versus Connected Institutions -- 3 Reasons for the Establishment of Institutions Representing Non-governmental Interests Within Regional Organizations -- 3.1 The Legal Factor: Broadening of the Mandate of International Organizations -- 3.2 The Non-legal Factor: The Trend to Emulation -- 4 Current Dissemination of the Phenomenon of Institutional Multipolarism of Regional Organizations -- 4.1 The Legal Models of Interstate Institutionalized Cooperation and the Institutional Multipolarism of Regional Organizations.