Regional aspects of integration: international and regional organizations

Abstract

International organizations are among the most developed and diverse
mechanisms the ordering of international life. A marked increase in the activity
of international organizations, as well as a significant increase in their
total amount, is one of the most remarkable phenomena of contemporary
international development.
Today in the world economy it is possible to note two main trends.
On the one hand, the growing factors leading to the formation of a kind
of her integrity, what is called the globalization process, and that caused
by the development of economic relations between countries, trade liberalization,
creation of modern systems of communication and information,
international technical standards and norms. On the other hand, is most
intense by historical standards, economic convergence and interaction of
countries at the regional level, formed a large regional integration structures,
developing towards the creation of relatively independent centers of
the world economy.