regional unity
Neighboring areas cooperating
Regional unity is cooperation or solidarity among neighboring areas, countries, or territories that share geography, culture, or interests.
The term appears in political and economic contexts: The treaty promoted regional unity among Southeast Asian nations.
Regional unity can range from loose alliances to formal integration like the European Union.
- federationUnion of semi-autonomous states
- solidarityUnity among allies
- common causeMutual objective uniting parties
- strength in numbersPower through collective unity
- allianceFormal union of parties
one voice · mutual defense · bloc · cooperation · integration · cohesion · partnership · commonwealth · neighbors · borders · shared · treaties · diplomacy · collective · harmony · pact · coalition · territory
regional unitybalkanization
Division into hostile units
regional conflict · separatism · secession · factionalism · partition
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Shared identity across citizenry
global integration · world government · localism · state sovereignty
regional unityunilateralism
Acting without international cooperation
isolationism · national sovereignty · protectionism · autarky · particularism
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