Regional Social Policy

Free trade agreements and regional alliances: support from Latin American legislators

“…Finally, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and some Caribbean countries are located in the anti-systemic axis. All of these are supporters of a social regionalism model based on the promotion of social rights, redistributive policies, and the fight against poverty and social exclusion, in collaboration with civil society (Yeates 2005;Deacon et al 2007;Briceño Ruiz 2013). This axis also defends a decolonial approach of regional integration, summarized in the sentence: "our north is the south" (Gomes 2018, 2).…”

A Study on the Attainment of Regional Peace: Insinuation of Johan Galtung’s Philosophy of Peace in Southeast Asian Countries

“…For instance, ASEAN used the Amnesty program which administered by the Malaysian government to treat 1.2 million illegal immigrants in 2004. The program helps to return their own country without imposing legal action or allowing them to enter Malaysia legally (Deacon et al, 2007). ASEAN member states agreed to eradicate drug abuse by cooperating with relevant parties.…”

Global social policy studies: Conceptual and analytical reflections

“…Operating in a space between national and cross-border policies, on the one hand, and a mere subordination to global forces and supranational organizations on the other, emerging regions are perhaps able to construct more appropriate mechanisms of redistribution for securing rights and social justice, and for regulating markets, institutions and social structures, involving risk pooling, economies of scale, and to develop a more coherent, critical and influential 'voice' in international arenas (cf. Deacon et al, 2007b). Regional social policies could then be devised that gave due recognition to diverse social and labour standards and reflected different cultural and religious approaches to social rights.…”