A WORLD OF REGIONS

Peter J. Katzenstein
(Cornell University Press)
 Argues that regions have become
critical to contemporary world
 Regions are interacting closely with
an American imperium that combines
territorial and non-territorial powers
 Regions may provide solution to
issues such as markets, security,
nationalism, and cosmopolitanism
 GLOBAL NORTH GLOBAL SOUTH
 United States  Africa
 Canada
 Latin America
 Western Europe
 Asia
 Australia
 Middle East
 New Zealand

NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE
(socio-economic & political)
GLOBAL NORTH GLOBAL SOUTH
*home of the G8 (Group of - Connotes
Eight)
developing
Canada Japan
France* United Kingdom*
countries
Germany Russia*
Italy United States*
*home of four of the
members of P5
*rich, industrialized,
wealthy nations

NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE
 GLOBAL NORTH GLOBAL SOUTH
 Mostly covers the  Corresponds with
West and the First the Third World
World, along with  Poorer, less
much of the Second developed region
World  “lacks appropriate
 Richer, more technology, has no
developed region political stability,
economies are
 Has enough food disarticulated and
and shelter depends on exports”
GLOBAL SOUTH VS
THIRD WORLD
Martin Lewis – “There is no Third
World. There is no global south.”

1960s, 1970s and 1980s

- Scholars divided the earth into three
parts: the First World, the Second
World and the Third World
FIRST WORLD
 encompassed all
industrialized, democratic
countries which were
assumed to be allied with the
United States
 Stable economy, high
standard of living
FIRST WORLD
NATO-aligned countries (North
Atlantic Treaty Orgnization)
Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
France, West Germany, Greece,
Italy, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
and United States
FIRST WORLD
Neutral Countries
Austria, Finland, Ireland,
Sweden, Switzerland,
Australia, Israel, Japan,
New Zealand and South
Korea
SECOND WORLD
 anchored on the industrialized,
communist realm of the Soviet
Union and its eastern European
satellites; “Communist Bloc”
 China: it ceased to be a Soviet
ally in 1961 and by the 1980s was
no longer an enemy of the US
SECOND WORLD
Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Hungary, Mongolia,
North Korea, Poland, Romania, the
Soviet Union, and the German
Democratic Republic.
THIRD WORLD
 non-aligned world and as the global
realm of poverty and underdeveloped
poor Soviet allies – Mongolia, Cuba,
North Korea and Vietnam
 “developing”, low income countries,
inferior, non-white, less-educated and
“primitive”
 Coined in 1952 by Alfred Sauvy, a
French demographer, anthropologist
and economic historian
THIRD WORLD
These countries have
weaknesses in nutrition,
education, and literacy, have
economic vulnerabilities, and
have widespread poverty.
Mexico, India, Brazil, Thailand,
Philippines, Jamaica, Peru, etc.
 GLOBALIZATON REGIONALISM
 Integration of  Divides an area into smaller
segments
economics across state
borders all around the
world
 Free market,  Monopolies are likely to
international trade develop
 Multiculturalism (free  Does not support
and inexpensive multiculturalism
movement of people)
 Does not get involved in the
 Willing to come to aid affairs
 Advances in technology  Advanced technology is
rarely available
REGIONAL INTEGRATION
 process in which neighboring states enter into
an agreement to upgrade cooperation through
common institutions and rules
 Removing barriers to free trade
 Increasing the free movement of people, labor,
goods, and capital
 Reducing the possibility of armed conflict
 Adopting cohesive stances on policy issues on
environment, climate change and migration
 ASEAN, EU (European Union)
 ACTIVITY NO. 3 - World of Regions
Image Creation – Symbolic Representation of
Regional Countries
Image Creation – Symbolic
Representation of Regions
A GLOBAL NORTH A GLOBAL SOUTH
COUNTRY COUNTRY

A FIRST WORLD A THIRD WORLD

COUNTRY COUNTRY

A LATIN-AMERICAN AN ASIAN COUNTRY

COUNTRY
 EXAMPLE
GLOBAL NORTH GLOBAL SOUTH
AUSTRALIA EGYPT

Kangaroo Key of the Nile

Short Description Short Description