Development of order in South Asia: Towards a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Parliament

Paranjpe, Shrikant

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“…The forum was created to improve the economic and social development of member states. As Paranjpe (2002) explains, SAARC has a double significance within the regional context: 01. it functions as a forum of cooperation that consolidates South…”

Section: India and Saarcmentioning

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Leaders or Loners? How Do the BRICS Countries and their Regions Vote in the UN General Assembly

Montenegro

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2017

Bras. Political Sci. Rev.

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The so-called emerging powers, including the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), typically present themselves as natural leaders of their regions. Although physical size confers them the status of regional powers, their role as leaders depends on the consensual acceptance of their would-be followers. Can it be affirmed then that the countries under the influence of the BRICS show convergent positions? Can the five BRICS be considered de facto leaders of their regions? This article sets out to answer these questions by analysing the behaviour of the BRICS and their regional partners in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The research design replicates the data from Voeten (2013) in order to compare the average affinity between each of the BRICS countries and their regions in the votes of the UNGA from 1992 to 2014. The data indicate a high level of regional cohesion for Brazil, China and South Africa when compared to Russia and India. The findings corroborate the literature in relation to Brazil and South Africa but conflict with what has been produced on the regional leadership of Russia, India and China.

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Section: India and Saarcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leaders or Loners? How Do the BRICS Countries and their Regions Vote in the UN General Assembly

Montenegro

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2017

Bras. Political Sci. Rev.

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“…South Asian countries are ‘competitive rather than complementary in their production structures’. They compete with ‘one another for a market share’, and tend to import from developed countries rather than neighbours ‘for reasons of quality and credit facility’ (Paranjpe, 2002: 347). In most of the South Asian countries, with the exception of probably India and Sri Lanka, ‘there is inefficient and uncompetitive production structure, high barriers to investment, large scale informal-illegal border trade .…”

Section: Economic Perspectivesmentioning

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South Asian Regional Integration – Challenges and Prospects

Karim¹

2014

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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South Asian regional integration is seemingly confronting many challenges. The aim of this paper is to identify those challenges and also look for prospects. Although regional integration in South Asia has adopted a kind of institutionalization, it is yet to deliver any concrete outcomes. High-politics and the not-so-conducive regional economic structures hinder any effectual culmination. However, constructivism, as a theory, is given due credence in this paper when looking for future prospects. The paper highlights the issues, and attempts to offer certain policy directions by analyzing the challenges and identifying the prospects in the on-going integration/cooperation process.

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“…For regional integration to be successful, the SAARC would need to develop a framework in which both the big and small nations of South Asia can work together. It has often been argued that a ‘SAARC Parliament could go beyond the bureaucratic-technical parameters of the existing organisation and promote new political, moral and cultural dimensions of regionalism in South Asia’ (Paranjpe, 2002). Finally, one could also talk about the problems associated with globalization and the impact of globalization on the region, and how globalization has undermined regionalism in South Asia.…”

Section: The Saarc: South Asian Association For Regional Cooperationmentioning

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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation: Problems and prospects

Mukherjee

2014

Progress in Development Studies

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The growth of regionalism is predominantly a post-Second World War phenomenon and has been increasingly gaining importance in international relations. Usually, regional organizations in the past have been inspired by very specific aims. Some regional organizations are concerned mainly with trade and economics; some are more concerned with defence and security whereas others are more concerned with the protection of cultural values. According to the realist approach in international relations, the political role of the hegemonic power is important in any particular region, whereas the neoliberal approach believes that states will behave rationally and enter into cooperative arrangements if they 

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Development of order in South Asia: Towards a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Parliament

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Leaders or Loners? How Do the BRICS Countries and their Regions Vote in the UN General Assembly

Leaders or Loners? How Do the BRICS Countries and their Regions Vote in the UN General Assembly

South Asian Regional Integration – Challenges and Prospects

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation: Problems and prospects

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