Abstract: The creation of SAARC in 1985 by the initiative of a relatively small country (Bangladesh) is a composition of several diffusion mechanisms such as domestic pressure, norm socialization and persuasion, competition, lesson drawing, normative emulation, and mimicry. Even though a broad agreement is located that the formation of SAARC is diffusion of South-to-South rather than diffusion from the EU or US (NAFTA) through the process of ASEAN-way, I do agree that ASEAN widely inspires the formation of SAARC. However, ASEAN is not the sole source of inspiration. The fundamental premises of this paper is to analyze the diffusion mechanism that took rule in the formation of SAARC. The paper will neither make a comparison of SAARC to other organization nor it will analyze the historical background.
Keywords: Diffusion, Mechanism, SAARC, Regionalism, ASEAN, EU, ASEAN-Way.
Title: The Diffusion Mechanisms Localized by SAARC During its Formation
Author: Bilal Ahmad
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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