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Outline the constraints SAARC is facing to emerge as an effective regional organisation.

  • UPSC 2008, 2003
  • 20 marks
  • Regionalisation of World Politics

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An effective regional organisation pools some decisions, settles disputes and raises interdependence among its members. Judged on these tests, SAARC (1985) has stalled. On Björn Hettne and Fredrik Söderbaum's scale of regionness, South Asia has not moved beyond a regional complex of interdependent but distrustful states. It has not become a regional society, let alone…

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  • 1. Constitutional constraints
  • 2. Political and security constraints
  • 3. Structural asymmetry
  • 4. Economic constraints
  • 5. Transnational and domestic constraints
  • 6. External constraints
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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