What is regional intergration

Regional integration is the process by which two or more nation-states agree to co-operate and work closely together to achieve peace, stability and wealth.

Usually integration involves one or more written agreements that describe the areas of cooperation in detail, as well as some coordinating bodies representing the countries involved.

This co-operation usually begins with economic integration and as it continues, comes to include political integration. We can describe integration as a scale, with 0 representing no integration at all between two or more countries. Ten would represent complete integration between two or more countries. This means that the integrating states would actually become a new country - in other words, total integration.