New-Regionalism in West Asia and Southeast Asia: A Comparative Reflection

Current global politics can be organized in terms of state, continent, and region. Thus, not least during recent three decades. region, both as a level of analysis and as a unit of analysis, has increasingly received scholarly attention. Moreover, a lot of emerging problems embedded in the international spherelack a national and/or global solution. It is easy to resolve regionally. This fact has been more prominent in theasian regions. In the meanwhile, West Asia and Southeast Asia are among regions gone through regionalism continuously. The paper aims to compare regionalism in these two regions by drawing on an appropriate conceptual framework. In doing so, the question is that which these reions has been more successful in promoting new regionalism during recent three decades? In answering, differences and similarities between them will be identified. In order to gather data, we shall use both qualitative and quantitative methods, and in oder to analize data, we will drw on content analysis. The finding is that Southeast Asia has been more successful in promoting new regionalism during recent three decades, which can pave the ground for research on a comparative prospect on new regionalism in West Asia and Southeast Asia and a critical reflection on it.