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“Despite so many agreed areas of cooperation, innumerable institutional mechanisms and a permanent secretariat, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has not taken off as a meaningful regional grouping.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 20 marks
  • Regionalisation of World Politics

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SAARC has a summit, a Council of Ministers, technical committees, a Kathmandu secretariat (1987), regional centres, SAFTA and a shelf of conventions. Yet South Asia remains the least integrated region in the world, trading barely 5% within itself. The statement is right: the problem is not missing machinery but institutions without integration.

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  • Functionalist hopes, unrealised
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