The role of regional integration in the international balance of power The European Union and the Shanghai Organization as a model

Abstract

The various regional integration formulas, have become prevalent since the second half of the twentieth century under the influence The need dictated by the data of growth and the economic interests of the members of integration, the conviction dictated by economic objectivity based on theories of integration and economic cooperation and its positive economic effect, or data of change and the balance of international powers and the nature of The global system, including. The end of the Cold War helped the power mechanisms witness a temporal and spatial change that made the economic and cognitive power the rest of the power variables. And he identified the new power structures and imposed new rules in the interaction of countries, and produced patterns of relations and different interactions in terms of type, goals and roles, and established a new style in the mechanisms of influence and power and making regional and international poles after pooling capabilities in larger structures in which roles and resources are distributed according to economic logic. Hence, it is possible to focus on two models of integration forms, namely the European Union and the Shanghai Organization. In this framework, two levels of research were focused on the outcomes of integration at the level of members and the bloc in general, and the second focuses on the roles that integration provides in the field of regional and international balance, where it will be imposed New integration force factors are a new pattern of power balance.