Latin American Integration: Regionalism à la Carte in a Multipolar World?

Publication Name
Colombia Internacional
Volume, number, page
n.92, pp. 15-41
Year of Publication
2017
Author(s)
QUILICONI Cintia
SALGADO ESPINOZA Raúl
Organization Name
Departamento de Ciencia Política y Centro de Estudios Internacionales - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - Universidad de los Andes
Publisher
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - Universidad de los Andes
City
Bogotá
Country of Publication
Colombia
Full Date
octubre-diciembre 2017
ISBN or ISSN
0121-5612
Category
Academic articles
Theme
Country - LAC
Agreements
Summits
Association Agreeements
Strategic Partnerships
Government
Keyword(s)
Regionalism
Integration
Unasur
Pacific Alliance
CELAC
Latin America
Mercosur
Andean Community
FTAA
NAFTA
Multilateralism
Open regionalism
Economic integration
Compared integration
Economic integration policy
Political and economic integration
Latin America policy
Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the different approaches proposed by authors who have done research on Latin American integration and regionalism, and suggests that there are three competing initiatives of integration and regionalism in the third wave of Latin American integration: Post-Liberal Regionalism contained within UNASUR and ALBA, Open Regionalism Reloaded in the region through the Pacific Alliance, and Multilateralism or Diplomatic Regionalism with a Latin American flavor envisaged in the recently created CELAC. The study concludes that these new developments of a regionalism à la carte are a product of dislocation of the economic agenda of regionalism towards a set of diverse issues. Hence it demands a rethinking of the theorization of Latin American Regionalism.
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