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“Regional cooperation makes sense only in the event of there being, at least as the bottom line, a degree of ideological cohesion and/or economic dependence. The SAARC members have neither.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1994
  • India and South Asia

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The statement belongs to the early 1990s, when SAARC was negotiating its first trade instrument, SAPTA (1993), amid doubt that South Asia could cooperate at all. It sets two alternative preconditions for regionalism, shared ideology or economic dependence, and finds both absent. The verdict reached here: largely right on the facts, wrong as theory.

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