Document Type : Research Paper
Abstract
Despite being rich in some important power elements such as territory, population and vast markets, Asia has had an insignificant share in global economy and politics during the past decades. However, today the old Continent has returned to the center of the world history through its historical economic development. For the first time in the modern world, Asia plays a determining role as a global actor in international system.
Regional integration is another trend and aspect of Asian politics which is contributing to the promotion of the international standing of the continent. Accordingly, one of the outstanding questions in Asian current international debates is related to the possibility or impossibility of the continental integration in this continent.
In response to the above-mentioned question, the authors have reviewed the different narratives of the regional integration in Asia and the continental perspective of this process. According to the research findings of the present article, Asian countries have sufficient resources and incentives to pave the ground for a sustainable continental integration by establishing a meaningful relation among the current experiences of regionalisms in Asia. For that reason, Asian integration is an option for the Asian countries in an era of Asian century.
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