ABSTRACT
International organization offers one type of arena for global policy-making. However, regionalization of government has also been a strong trend recently, resulting in the emergence of a few regional groups of states which have become major players in the globalization game: European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Mercado Comun del Cono Sur, and so on. This chapter looks at the differences between these regional groups as well as the differences within the groups themselves. It discusses the analysis of variance in order to state both the between group differences and the within group differences. The normative status of affluence and human development is hardly contested among the cultures of the world. Matters are different with regard to democracy, which is here measured with the enforcement of human rights. In contrast to Economic Community of West African States, the Southern African Development Community, formed in Lusaka, Zambia on April 1, 1980, has much less ambition.
