The current international environment, marked by intensified global rivalry and uncertainty, the collapse of the world system, and the return of power politics, forces small and middle states to initiate regional initiatives to increase their resilience and deterrence against external threats. Neither the hegemonic powers, the United States, nor the global international organizations, such as the United Nations, can solve regional and global problems. Western countries selectively intervene in international issues. When non-Western powers began to imitate the Western global powers and intervene in the domestic affairs of other states, the global problems rose further.
All these threats and dynamics led to the rise of regionalism and the establishment of regional organizations.
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