The breakthrough, says Mr Nag, came with the acceptance that though all member countries would benefit, they would not all do so equally or at the same time.Similar subregional initiatives are proliferating in South, Central and South-East Asia.
Ukraine also fostered a working relationship with several countries of the former Soviet Union by cofounding a loose subregional organization called GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova; known as GUUAM from 1999 to 2005, when Uzbekistan was a member).
North-south polarities eventually gave way to subregional factions within the northern establishment.
Until 1967 Uganda was a quasi-federal polity that included five subregional monarchies, non-monarchical districts, and a central government.
These countries, however, remained dissatisfied, and in 1981 the seven former members of the West Indies Associated States (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) formed a subregional economic integration organization, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, though they retained their Caricom membership.
They may be bilateral, subregional, regional, or global, and they may address relatively narrow or very broad concerns.
Underrated Clemson is clearly the best team in its subregion; Tennessee and Texas have easier subregionals than normal for No. 2 seeds; and U.C.L.A. will face no other team in our ranking's top 20 until the regional final.
Aside from some early turbulence – we missed the Davidson and San Diego upsets during the subregionals – our chalk-heavy pool was unusually healthy.
Logic dictates that a Grand Slam tournament with seven rounds should produce superior players and superior play round by round, the way the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament evolves from subregionals to regionals to Final Four.
The Sooners were hosts for the first two rounds of the N.C.A.A. tournament this year and had the highest attendance of the 16 subregionals, packing more than 11,000 people in the stands for both sessions.
This is the only one of eight subregionals in the tournament in which form held in the first round.
