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 a segment of the world bound together by a common set of
objectives based on geographical, social, cultural, economic,
or political ties and possessing a formal structure provided for
in intergovernmental agreements.
 they incorporate international membership and encompass 
geopolitical entities that operationally transcend a single 
nation state. Their membership is characterized by
boundaries and demarcations characteristic to a defined and
unique geography, such as continents, or geopolitics, such as 
economic blocks. 
 TYPES OF
REGIONAL ORGANIZATION
(Lynn H. Miller)

• Cooperative/ Multipurpose Regional Organization

• Alliance-type Regional Organizations
• Functional Regional Organization
 Classifications of Regional organization
(Lynn H. Miller)
 Cooperative/ Multipurpose regional organization
 are those whose broad aims and activities reach across the lines that divide political and military
matters from those generally classified as economic and social.

Organization of American States (OAS)

  Its members are the thirty-five independent
states of the Americas.: "to achieve an order
of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity,
to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their
sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their
independence."

League of Arab States

"draw closer the relations between member
States and co-ordinate collaboration between
them, to safeguard their independence and
sovereignty, and to consider in a general way
the affairs and interests of the Arab countries."
 African Union (AU)
-consists of 53 African states.
-to accelerate the political and socio-economic

integration of the continent; to promote and

defend African common positions on issues of
interest to the continent and its peoples; to achieve
peace and security in Africa; and to promote
democratic institutions, good governance
and human rights.

1. Association of Southeast Asian Nations

2. Nations (ASEAN)

1. European Union (EU)

 Classification of regional organization (Lynn H. Miller)
Alliance-type organizations
 are those whose military and political orientation is intended to provide
security against external actors
North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO
(1949) - the largest, most highly recognized, and stable
military security alliance

Warsaw Treaty Organization WTO (1955)

- was used to enforce soviet dominance over its allies
- original members were Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,

GDR, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the USSR.

Australia, New Zealand, united States
Security Treaty Organization ANZUS

Western European Union WEU (1954)

 Classification of regional organization (Lynn H. Miller)
 Functional Regional Organization
 those that promote economic, social or political collaboration, with little or no
regard to security factors
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC
The OPEC is a cartel of 13 countries made up of
Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Kuwait,
Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates, and Venezuela. 
Arab Monetary Fund
to correct and balance the payment of its member states, remove
payment restrictions between members, improve Arab monetary
cooperation, encourage the development of Arab financial markets.

Latin American Integration Market LAIA

European Investment Bank EIB
European Coal and Steel Community ECSC
African Development Bank AFDB
PROS OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATION
Political, economic, and social integration is more easily
attained among a lesser number of stats within a limited
geographical area than on a global basis.
Local threats to the peace are more willingly promptly dealt
with by the governments of that area than by disinterested states
at greater distances from the scene of conflict.
 By combining states into regional groupings, a global balance
will be maintained and world peace and security will be
promoted.
The world is not ready to establish global authority sufficient to
maintain world peace and promote world welfare. Regionalism
is the first step in gaining experience and building areas of
consensus toward eventual intergovernmental coordination or
integration.
CONS OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATION
World interdependence has created an increasing number of
problems that require global solutions. Political, economic, and
social problems reach across regional boundaries.
Regional resources are often inadequate to resolve problems of
states within a region.
Only a universal organizations can provide an adequate check on
the power of a large state that can often dominate the other
members of a regional arrangement.
Sanctions against an aggressor are usually ineffective if applied
on a regional basis because of sources of aid to the aggressor
from outside the region.
 Regional alliances provide the basis for rivalries and competition
for military supremacy among regions leading to greater
possibilities for major wars.
 REGIONALISM UNDER THE
UNITED NATIONS CHARTER
 Chapter VIII with only 3 articles
(articles 52-54)
1. Regional agencies may exist for dealing with such issues of international peace and
security as are appropriate for regional action as long as their activities are
consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
2. States are encouraged to settle local disputes through regional agencies before
referring them to the Security Council
3. The security council may, in turn, utilize such agencies for the settlement of local
disputes
4. With the exception of action against enemy states resulting from World War II, no
enforcement action shall be taken by regional agencies without the authorization of
the security council
5. The security council shall be kept fully informed of activities undertaken or
contemplated by regional agencies for the maintenance of peace and security.