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While globalization and its various dimensions have challenged the vestfaly system and traditional Governments based on it, nation stats have not yet found a safe shelter.
In fact the speed and mutation of modern globalization constitule the greates challenge for the continuation of these old players. This is the case when alongside globalition modern regionalization is also talking shape.
Some are of the opinion that regionalization and glibalization work in one and the same direction, and complement each other, where as some others consider regionalization as an alternative or even antithesis to globalization. work in one and the same direction, and complement each other, where as some others consider regionalization as an alternative or even antithesis of globalization.
The present article, while conducting a breif study of these two concepts, intends to clarify the relations of these two processes and to illustrate the special role of regionalization in reducing the effects of globalization upon the vestfaly system