ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

REGIONALISM AND GLOBALIZATIONIN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLDROXANA NANU, OANA BERCEANU, RADU BUZIENESCUThe interdependencies between regionalism and globalization of theeconomical life are appreciated differently by economists and politicians.A first approval, with a large circulation, appreciate that theregionalization and the globalization are complementary tendencies; therealization of regional groups facilitate and hurries the international developmentof the economical development and of commerce. Hence here fallows theconclusion that the regionalization, in its turn, has become a global phenomenon,not through the inclusion aria but through numerous integrationist regionalorganisms appeared in almost all the continents and zones in the world. Toconsider that the continental type regionalisation of the economical developmentand of commerce would be a way of consolidation of the globalisation premises,is at least for the actual phase, an unrealistic appreciation, because theregionalisation means consolidation, frontiers fortification of the spaceintegrated in what represents the expansion and the danger of the globalisation.Still, theoretically in our conscience, Europe has to represent a component ofglobalisation, of the world where it will represent a functional part. That meansthat for the time being, we must understand that we physically live in the spaceof an economically integrated Europe and only spiritually in the global space ofhuman kind, because the regional economical integration moved the territoriallimits from the level of the national states to the level of the regions, withoutrenouncing at the territorial limitations. 1The most common approach of regionalism is the one that limits itself topreferential commercial accords between the states situated in the samegeographic space. Under this form regionalism induces more commercialdiscrimination, in report to the undifferentiated treatment on the multilateralismaxe inside globalisation. In this hypothesis it is appreciated that even if thepreferential regimes constitute derogations from the clause of the most favouritenation, this doesn’t mean that they don’t generate economical disadvantages tooand that they will unsettle the multilateral commercial system. But, when theregionalisation rises on the principles of the adversity this possibility is just anillusion. Integrated in the European Union Europe was born because it has tocope with the economical power of the United States of America, just like Asiawithin the regionalisation forms: The Association of the South-Eastern AsianNations (ASEAN). And the Asia- Pacific Cooperation Forum (APEC) searches1 Marin Dinu, Cristian Socol, Marius Marinas (2005), The European model ofintegration, Bucureşti, Economic Publishing House, p. 21.ARHIVELE OLTENIEI, Serie nouă, nr. 21, 2007, p. 333–340