ABSTRACT
The lands constituting the Roman Empire, the possessions of Alexander the Great and even the Chinese Qin Empire are all instances of the "earliest accounts to regional constructions" the military ones. The Organization of American States (OAS), dating back to the end of the nineteenth century, claims to be the world's oldest regional organization. Balassa's metanarrative was endorsed by Fawcett and Hurrell in their construction of the concept of regionalism and by Bjorn Hettne and Fredrik Soderbaum in their construction of the concept of regionness. The acceptance of Balassa's premise by IR scholarship that all region making processes are heading to the same end-point has prevented the discipline from properly addressing the phenomenon of regionalism. Post-structuralism is an ethos cultivated by "a relatively small number of highly prolific authors" such as Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze and Judith Butler.
