Research Article
Integration in Regional Organizations – A Comparison of EU, AU, OAS, and ASEAN
Florian T Furtak*Faculty of Public Administration, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
- *Corresponding Author:
- Florian T Furtak
Professor of European Law and Political Science
Faculty of Public Administration
Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
E-mail: florian.furtak@hwr-berlin.de
Received Date: June 27, 2015 Accepted Date: June 30, 2015 Published Date: July 08, 2015
Citation: Furtak FT (2015) Integration in Regional Organizations – A Comparison of EU, AU, OAS, and ASEAN. J Civil Legal Sci 4:146. doi:10.4172/2169-0170.1000146
Copyright: © 2015 Furtak FT. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Regional organizations differ in many ways – one is the degree of integration. This article examines the political systems of EU, AU, OAS, and ASEAN. As a result, one could conclude that the degree of integration within the EU is high, because the member states transferred many competences to the common EU institutions. The AU takes the EU as an example and tries to establish similar structures, but it does not reach this degree of integration for a long time yet. OAS and ASEAN have comparatively the lowest degree of integration as their members indeed cooperate in various policy fields, but are not willing to transfer competences to common institutions.