Reflecting on Structural and Environmental Conflicts in the Regional Cooperation of the Islamic World: A Case Study of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

The present study discussed areas of disintegration in the Islamic Cooperation Organization by applying neo-functionalism approach and focusing on structural and environmental conflicts. After the United Nations (UN), the Islamic Cooperation Organization (ICO) is the biggest regional world organization. However, it has suffered from weak performance during its life unlike many regional organizations such as the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU). Moving from organizational levels towards regional and international challenges, we found out that despite the ideological advertisements, the ICO has lost its applications. Cooperation has become impossible for the Islamic countries due to its heterogeneous members with various approaches towards politics, culture and economics especially in the recent decade with new challenges caused by the globalization of culture and politics. The final analysis of this study was that Islamic countries will prefer to join organizations with common economic tendencies in the upcoming decades.