Canada and Malaysia sign deal to boost co-operation on security issues

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Canada and Malaysia have signed an agreement that Prime Minister Stephen Harper says will enhance security co-operation between the two countries.
Harper announced the agreement in Malaysia on Sunday when he was formally welcomed to the Asian country by his counterpart, Prime Minister Mohd Najib.

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China, Malaysia lift bilateral cooperation

China and Malaysia have designated 2014 as a year of friendly exchanges when the two countries plan to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.

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International Cooperation Deepens to Aid Tsunami Victims

Madison - The World Council of Credit Unions, Inc. (WOCCU) has launched an appeal to the international credit union community for funds to assist with reconstruction efforts in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
WOCCU is currently working with its associate at SANASA in Sri Lanka to help provide immediate relief assistance, rebuild credit unions and initiate reconstruction of the communities affected.

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Vietnam enhances sports cooperation with world

Vietnam wants to broaden its sporting collaboration with other nations and views sport as an impetus to national development and friendship between countries.

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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The OECD brings together 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy. With active relationships with some 70 other countries, nongovernmental organizations and civil society, it has a global reach. Best known for its publications and its statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development, and science and innovation.

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Obama calls for global economic cooperation

President Obama reached out to citizens of the world Tuesday, saying in an op-ed piece that ran in 31 newspapers around the globe that there is an urgent need for worldwide economic cooperation.

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Chinese president voices confidence in China-U.S. cooperation

PALM SPRINGS, United States, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping saidhere Saturday that he is fully confident that there is a broad prospect for cooperation between China and the United States.

Xi made the remarks when meeting with Californian Governor Edmund Brown shortlybefore wrapping up a two-day meetings with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama.

The two presidents met twice and took a walk together over the weekend atSunnylands, a 200-acre picturesque estate in the Californian city of Rancho Mirage.

Xi thanked Brown and other state officials for their hospitality and arrangements in hosting the face-to-face meeting between him and Obama, the first since the twocountries completed their latest leadership transitions.

Xi told Brown that he and Obama had in-depth, sincere and candid discussions onbilateral relations as well as international and regional issues of common concern, andreached important consensus.

Both sides agreed to build a new type of major country relationship based on mutualrespect, mutual benefits with win-win results and laid out a comprehensive blueprint forthe future development of bilateral ties, Xi said.


Speaking positively of the achievements and efforts made by Californian stategovernment in promoting cooperation and exchanges with China, Xi said local-levelcooperation can consolidate societal basis for China-U.S. relations.

Both China and the United States have been making structural adjustments,maintaining economic growth and increasing employment, which provide numerousopportunities for cooperation, Xi said.

China is willing to expand economic cooperation and two-way investment with Californiaand strengthen cooperation with the state in such fields as clean energy, informationtechnologies, infrastructure construction and culture industries.

Brown said it is an honor of California to host the meetings between the Chinese andU.S. presidents.

He said the world needs China and the United States to build a new type of majorcountry relationship, which is in the fundamental interests of the two countries and their people.

California wants to strengthen cooperation and exchanges with China to make greater contribution to the development of U.S.-China relations, the governor said.

Xi arrived here Thursday after wrapping up a three-nation Latin American tour, whichhad taken him to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico. 

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India, China deepen economic cooperation

India and china have decided to expand their economic and trade cooperation. At the second India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue, both countries signed 11 memorandums of understanding valued at over 5 billion dollars. This dialogue is being seen as one of the most successful efforts at building relations between the two economies.

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Regional and global cooperation

Similarly, cooperation between nations of large areas makes the role of regional organizations important. These regional organizations have varying formal agreements and arrange regular meetings in addition to emergency or special topic sessions.

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Malaysia boosts its regional defense cooperation

Malaysia will work more closely with Vietnam to prevent naval misunderstandings on the high seas turning into military confrontation, state news agency Bernama reported.

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Japan, Russia hold first diplomatic-defence talks

Tokyo (AFP) Nov 02, 2013 - The foreign and defence ministers of Japan and Russia agreed Saturday to cooperate in fighting terrorism and piracy as the neighbours, still at odds over territorial woes, held an unprecedented security dialogue.

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Malaysia-India Defence Cooperation: A Need for Paradigm Shift before Strategic Partnership

Major Arguments of the Paper: The core argument of this paper is that a paradigm shift is necessary in order to take the defence relationship between Malaysia and India to a higher plane. The author has approached the subject from the Malaysian perspective, and her prescription about paradigm shift relates to the Malaysian state

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Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT)

The Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) is a classic growth triangle drawing upon strong economic complementarities, geographical proximity, and close historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

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BIMP-EAGA: Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-The Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area

The Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) initiative was launched in 1994 as a cooperation initiative by the four national governments to close the development gap across and within the EAGA member countries as well as across the ASEAN-6 member states.

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Foreign Minister calls for expanding economic cooperation with Malaysia

On 8 July, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs met with the Foreign Minister of Malaysia Dato’ Sri Anifah Bin Aman, who had arrived in Latvia for and official visit. This was the first visit by a Malaysian Foreign Minister to Latvia since regaining independence, which testifies to Malaysia’s increasing interest in cooperation with Latvia.

The ministers discussed bilateral relations, placing the focus on the intensification of economic cooperation. Alongside the current cooperation in international organisations, both officials expressed the intention of developing cultural and educational links and enhancing the legal framework. An essential part of the relations is also the deepening of contacts between the European Union and Malaysia.

Minister Rinkēvičs recognised that a significant direction in Latvia’s external economic policy was the expansion of cooperation with Asia, and serious effort was being made towards that. This means building closer relations with Asian countries including Malaysia. “Malaysia is one of the most influential members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), whose rapidly growing economy offers good opportunities in the business sector. Therefore, we are planning to explore and study the business environment and possibilities for significantly increasing Latvia’s business presence not only in the Malaysian market but also in those of all the Southeast Asian countries,” said the Foreign Minister.

Foreign Minister Rinkēvičs also informed the Malaysian Foreign Minister about Latvia’s accession to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and joining the euro area as from 1 January 2014. Besides, the minister pointed to the forthcoming highly important events in 2014 when Riga assumes the role of the European Capital of Culture, and in the first half of 2015 when Latvia becomes the country presiding over the Council of the European Union.

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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Arabic: منظمة التعاون الإسلامي‎; French: Organisation de la Coopération Islamique, OCI)^{[a 1]} is an international organisation consisting of 57 member states. The organisation states that it is "the collective voice of the Muslim world" and works to "safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony".^[1]

The OIC has a permanent delegation to the United Nations, and is the largest international organisation outside the United Nations.^[2] The official languages of the OIC are Arabic, English and French.

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International Relationship

Since the end of the Cold War, numerous cooperative agreements between nations have demonstrated that international cooperation (IC) is possible. When nations cooperate, they do so on a voluntary basis and are able to abandon agreements at will. Global governance, which is understood here as the institutionalisation of IC, in the ideal case implies regulations aiming to solve global problems through agreement enforcement and accountability of the actors involved. 



This essay argues that IC and global governance in their present form constitute a stepping-stone to a world government.

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