| Summary/Abstract |
Moral cosmopolitanism workswhen all the actors are collectively motivated and act accordingto those principles. Similarly, regionalism, a process to instigate economic, social and political cooperation among a group of sovereign state, essentializes concertedcommitment and effort towards integration.Yet, for both cosmopolitanism and regionalismto manifest, the role of national interest and ambition cannot be ignored. The article considers two of such ambitions of asovereign state- economic and strategic. It argues that in each case, when the national interest and ambitionof the member states of a regional organization is harnessed, the cosmopolitan ideal of regional peace and securitywill also berealized.
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