Today, the most prominent phenomena of international relations are interdependence and regional integration. The reason is that the traditional internutional relations [so-called billiard ball model] have become new international relations [so-called ...
Today, the most prominent phenomena of international relations are interdependence and regional integration. The reason is that the traditional internutional relations [so-called billiard ball model] have become new international relations [so-called cobweb model] gradually. In addition, the low politics of economic and social affairs has increasingly become more important than the high politics of military security in international relations.
International interdependence can be divided into two dimensions ; universal interdependence and regional interdependence. Analysis of regional integration in terms of interdependence concepts may help to place integration theory in its proper context.
In this paper, mainly, we analyzed the regional integration in the three regions : europe, America and Asia-pacific. We could find that the European Community(EC) is more unique than any other regional integrations ; other regional integrations except E.C are in the first step in view of economic integration. And we found that the followings are emerging as areas of research in the international integrations.
Political integration prior to economic integration is likely to be harmful to regional integration ; Political stability and external security of member states seem to be important in the process on integration ; The formation of Asia-Pacific Community seems to be difficult in near future, but in the long run it will be established.
Lastly, regional integrations should be regarded as transitional stages toward the formation of a World federation, and it should not be exclusive. Korea must consider such points in approch to the various proposals concerning to the asia-Pacific Community.