Regionalism Theory: A Case Study of Japan's Relations with USA & Indonesia

Introduction

From the case study of Fukushima nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan back in the year 2011, the term regionalism is consistently used to refer to the collective relations that japan had with other nations like USA and Indonesia. In layman's language, historically, and according to the case study, regionalism can be defined as the expression of a given sense showing identity and togetherness of nations in groups of a particular area for specific set objectives and goals. Regionalism theory, therefore, explains more in-depth the forms and occasions of where regionalism exists. Nevertheless, disaster management may be considered as one of the significant aim or goals that usually trigger most countries like japan to partner or amalgamate to form a unified organization or plan to help in solving the problems in case the anticipated or predicted risk or disaster occurs (Soderbaum, 2012). One significant reason as to why most countries adopt the theory is to prevent them from using too many resources in the rescue of properties and lives whenever such disaster like floodings occur. In such cases, regionalism theory should be adapted since national disasters may sometimes be unpredictable, but even if they become predicted by the weather forecasters and the scientists, the losses from destructions can barely be prevented (Soderbaum, 2012). To help in solving this, nations should come together to form international organizations with one primary aim of helping one another in times of disaster occurrence, and it can only be made possible through regionalism theory.

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Benchmark of Existing Management Center

One of the public agency that is dominant in the field of disaster management includes the Calgary Emergency Management Agency CEMA. The organization is widely known for its management of emergency cases arising from unavoidable disasters like a tsunami. It was officially launched in the year 2014, after nations realizing that it was so demanding to fight the disasters at their levels without any form of external assistance. Fukushima disaster case thus behaved like a mirror both to the countries that already partnered with japan and those that did not but feared for having the similar future encountering.

The organization is mandated to perform lots of activities to prevent the occurrences of the disasters and help in the real times of the catastrophes to lower the rate of deaths and loss of properties both at individual levels and country's level. Their first role is to create awareness to individuals of the countries registered under the organization on the ways to prevent the occurrence of some risks. Recently, one major intervention teaching plan by the CEMA leaders is to help male people understand that a continuous increase in the number of industries is continually furling up the level of carbon IV oxide in the atmosphere. With the rise in the level of carbon dioxide, the percentage of oxygen is consequently reduced to balance off the general composition of gases in the atmosphere. Additionally, this is also building the possibilities of global warming since the social environment like forests are cleared in the name of creating spaces for more industries to be set up or to have resources for use in the trades. As this is not enough, the organization also highlights that with the clearing of the vegetation's, drought as one of the disasters is triggered most. The organization can thus be linked directly with the role of creating public awareness towards preparedness of preventing the possible occurrence of risks. However, in cases of severe fire outbreaks, weather changes, security threats, flooding, drought and tsunami, the organization is required by the policies to send its representatives to help in fighting the effects.

ASEAN is a global organization which was formed typically to prevent disasters in the 19th centuries (AHA centre). The primary role for the formation of AHA centre was to provide a vast range of information and knowledge on the ways of managing disasters (Secretariat, 2011). The organization also aims at serving as the central theme for the enlistment of properties to the affected areas and act as the harmonization engine to certify that the ASEAN's firm and cooperative response to a disaster in the ASEAN regions.

The AHA Centre is recognized as a fragment of ASEAN's assurance in strengthening cooperative responses to tragedies and reduce the rate of losses. The AHA Centre is delegated over a legally-binding contract known as the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) (Secretariat, 2011). This is also the response to the occurrence of many disasters within the framework of the region. For this reason, there was an official agreement in the year 2007 that ASEAN Foreign Ministers Centre be located in Indonesia, due to the high rates of effects and disaster cases within its environment

The ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) that is comprised of heads of other disaster management organizations for the ASEAN countries, under the assistant secretariat for ASEAN has become so instrumental while trying to deliver for the birth of AHA Centre or efficient and stronger foundation (Collins, 2013).

The two organizational centres, CEMA and ASEAN AHA, both operate within their countries of location as well as internationally. Their international duties, especially in the provision of public awareness, has helped many countries as the intervals for the occurrence of this disasters have significantly reduced as compared to what was present before the establishment of the centres. Moreover, the number of people losing their lives whenever these risks occur has also been significantly reduced (Collins, 2013). This confirms that regionalism theory is more beneficial than it can be thought of, to minimize the losses and create awareness to everyone globally.

References

Collins, A. (2013). Building a people-oriented security community the ASEAN way. Routledge. Retrieved from https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2010-0-38098-2&isbn=9781136251283&format=googlePreviewPdf

Secretariat, A. S. E. A. N. (2011). ASEAN humanitarian assistance centre launched.

Soderbaum, F. (2012). Theories of regionalism. In Routledge Handbook of Asian regionalism (pp. 31-41). Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203803608/chapters/10.4324/9780203803608-10