economic community’
Other continents in the world are also responding to
this cultural regionalization in Asia
APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Promoting free trade
Annual meeting to purse its goals
NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement
Creating trade bloc in North America
Removed most barriers to trade and investment
1. Main causes – geographical, ext
8. Why did Korea experience more and severer labor disputes in the late 1980s than earlier periods?
한국의 노동투쟁 및 파업의 시기는 정치적 불안의 시기와 일치하는 경향을 보인다. 특히 1980년대 후반의 격렬했던 노동투쟁은 1987년 당시 집권여당의 대통령 후보였던 노태우의 직선제 및 인권에 관한 공약이 기폭제가 되어
Economy: 2008 Global financial crisis
2. Regionalization
1) Concept
- High levels of interaction within a region.
- Regionalization has the two components : 'cooperation' and 'integration'
- Trade, financial flows, similar cultures in a certain region are important indicators of regionalization
2) Examples
- In Politics: The treaty of Lisbon by EU
- In Society: The Korean wave in Asia
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in Warsaw
German Chancellor Angela Merkel apologized again
in Sep. 1st, 2009, in Poland, Gdansk
History Education continues
Also working to let people from the world know about their history, in a sense that they do not want it to happen again, ever
German adolescents doing volunteer works in Kibbutz, Israel
Abolition of Nazism, and punishing former Nazis
Economic compensation
economic integration
Economic integration is a term used to describe how different aspects between economies are integrated. The basics of this theory were written by the Hungarian Economist Béla Balassa in the 1960s. The degree of economic integration can be categorized into six stages
Preferential trading area
A Preferential Trade Area is a trading bloc which gives preferential access