TEHRAN, June 12 (Xinhua) -- West Asia is witnessing expanding cooperation in the region, and so is Latin America. This demonstrates how the U.S. influence is waning and a new "systematic order" is taking shape, an Iranian scholar said in a recent opinion piece.
In his article publisehd online by Iran's state-owned Press TV on Saturday, Reza Javadi, a Ph.D. candidate in British Studies at the University of Tehran, mentioned a recent meeting among South American leaders on regional integration as an example of such transition.
Leaders of the South American countries reached the Brasilia Consensus on May 30 at the regional summit convened in Brasilia by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, seeking to facilitate regional integration.
During the meeting, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged the region to form a common currency against the U.S. hegemony in world trade, according to Javadi.
Meanwhile in West Asia, some countries with strained ties are moving toward normal relations, he added.
The recent mending of fences between regional countries constitutes a new order in which several regional coalitions co-exist. These regional networks are not necessarily rivals or adversaries, but healthy competitors, he said.
A more significant and common factor among these coalitions is that they are not willing to be subservient to Western hegemony, he noted. ■
