PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · Regionalisation of World Politics
How does the regionalism shape the world politics? Explain with examples.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
R1 regionalism = condition + process → Inis Claude: world too wide for world government → region is where the answers lie → since the 1990s, regions “objects → subjects” / R2 new regionalism, post-Cold War second coming → region stops being the arena of world politics, becomes an actor in it → three arenas: power, peace, trade
Body flow
pooled sovereignty → bloc weight no single member has → EU (third-largest economy, CETA, Iran deal, 27 members) → ASEAN’s ten small states leading EAS + RCEP → collective bargaining → multipolarity → peace function → ECSC makes war “materially impossible” → Fisher: “Balkans of Asia” → zone of peace, no war since 1967 → trade function → NAFTA makes North America see itself as a region → trade diversion → Bhagwati’s question: building blocks or stumbling blocks?
Counter-view
sovereignty backlash → Brexit + US exit from TPP → Helen Thompson: “regionalism is out, sovereignty back in” → SAARC stalls, intra-regional trade below 5% → but integration continued despite both exits
Conclusion routes
> R1 answer Bhagwati → building blocks, not stumbling blocks / R2 regionalism does not replace the global order → it supplies the level where competition and regulation are reconciled, in a world not ready for global authority
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
