Unity of the Willing?

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Unity of the Willing?

• The Implications of Regional Organisations NGOs
  in a Dangerous World

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Dangerous World

• North Korea (nuclear weapons)
• IRAQ (no surprise there!)
• 9/11
• What is the NGO Definition?--TNCs? WTO? IMF?
  World Bank? Neo-liberal ideology?

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NGOs In Global Economy

• 14, 500
• different types
• seek pressure on national govts/Ios

• SEATTLE
• Oxfam Action Aid
• CAMPAIGNS!

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REGION

• Ridiculous Exercise in Guaranteeing International
  Order Nowhere

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ALLIANCE

• Almost Least Likely In A New crisis to Convince
  Everyone (!!!!)

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Alliance

• formal relationship between countries /groups for
  a shared purpose (NATO)

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Regional grouping

• area considered as a unit, but with no definite
  boundaries social cohesiveness (ethnicity race
  language religion culture history
  consciousness)

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Understanding Different Types of Regionalism
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Regional Organisations Worldwide

• ASEAN (10 members)
• APEC ()
• CARICOM ()
• EU (15, soon 25)
• ECOWAS (15)

• COMESA (8)
• MERCOSUR (4, 2)
• NAFTA (3)
• FTAA vs COTONOU, which would be 22 vs 77