Saarc Failure Reasons
FAILURE REASON OF SAARC
Introduction 1. SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) was stablished on 8th December,1985 by seven countries of Asia named as Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives, India, and Sri Lanka, while Afghanistan joined this association later in 2007. The headquarters of SAARC are Katmandu and Nepal. Initially SAARC was established to retreat and up hold the peace in the south Asia region and create the opportunities of interaction between member countries. The main purpose of the founders of this association is to increase the progress of economic and social development in member states,through joint action in the agreed areas of cooperation. Later on strategies were trimmed down and made consisting of five prime objectives i.e. better communication, smooth the progress of trade and investment, expand tourism, assistance in power and energy sector, and endorse private sector. To overcome its basic issues, ie economic and poverty problems in 1993, its member countries signed an agreement, South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA), for reducing tariff within the region. This agreement was implemented in 2006, the member countries agreed to bring tariff duties down by 20% up to 2009. However, SAARC is not that much successful in resolving economic problems or addressing political conflicts in South Asia.
Why SAARC has been a failure?
2. Why SAARC has failed to come true to the expectations of the people like any other regional organization of the world and why it could not help the region to assume peace and development, these are some of the issues which are to be discussed as under:-
a) Clash of civilizations. Prof. Samuel Huntington in his book "The Clash of Civilisations" states that SAARC has been a failure because according to him the countries that belong to other such associations, like the European Union (EU) etc they belong to same culture but, SAARC belongs to those countries whose cultures are different.
Introduction 1. SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) was stablished on 8th December,1985 by seven countries of Asia named as Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives, India, and Sri Lanka, while Afghanistan joined this association later in 2007. The headquarters of SAARC are Katmandu and Nepal. Initially SAARC was established to retreat and up hold the peace in the south Asia region and create the opportunities of interaction between member countries. The main purpose of the founders of this association is to increase the progress of economic and social development in member states,through joint action in the agreed areas of cooperation. Later on strategies were trimmed down and made consisting of five prime objectives i.e. better communication, smooth the progress of trade and investment, expand tourism, assistance in power and energy sector, and endorse private sector. To overcome its basic issues, ie economic and poverty problems in 1993, its member countries signed an agreement, South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA), for reducing tariff within the region. This agreement was implemented in 2006, the member countries agreed to bring tariff duties down by 20% up to 2009. However, SAARC is not that much successful in resolving economic problems or addressing political conflicts in South Asia.
Why SAARC has been a failure?
2. Why SAARC has failed to come true to the expectations of the people like any other regional organization of the world and why it could not help the region to assume peace and development, these are some of the issues which are to be discussed as under:-
a) Clash of civilizations. Prof. Samuel Huntington in his book "The Clash of Civilisations" states that SAARC has been a failure because according to him the countries that belong to other such associations, like the European Union (EU) etc they belong to same culture but, SAARC belongs to those countries whose cultures are different.