Publication Name
Integration & Trade Journal
Volume, number, page
17:36, pp. 25-38
Year of Publication
2013
Organization Name
Inter-American Development Bank
Acronym
IDB
Publisher
IDB
City
Buenos Aires
Country of Publication
Argentina
Full Date
January-June 2013
Considered Countries
Spain
Portugal
Category
Academic articles
Theme
BILATERAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
Country - LAC
BIREGIONAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
Keyword(s)
European Union
Development Co-operation
History
Foreign Policy
Triangular Cooperation
Abstract
The article reviews and characterizes the recent boom in South-South Cooperation (SSC) by focusing
on a specific experience: that of the member countries of the Ibero-American Conference and, in
particular, the nineteen Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries (from Mexico to
Chile, including Cuba and Dominican Republic), plus Spain and Portugal. It seeks to understand a
kind of cooperation that is expanding under various different guises and gaining in importance in the
international development cooperation agenda with each passing year. Accordingly and in constant
reference to this specific case, the article first explores the way this kind of SSC is evolving, its new
scope, and its main features. Next, it reconstructs the bloc’s political discourse regarding SSC, as
well as the way it is pervading the international debate. With this in mind, it draws on the various
editions of the Report on South-South Cooperation in Ibero-America, prepared by the Ibero-American
General Secretariat (SEGIB), an analytical tool that, in addition to providing information, constitutes,
both in itself and by structure, an intergovernmental, horizontal, and collective instance of SSC.
on a specific experience: that of the member countries of the Ibero-American Conference and, in
particular, the nineteen Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries (from Mexico to
Chile, including Cuba and Dominican Republic), plus Spain and Portugal. It seeks to understand a
kind of cooperation that is expanding under various different guises and gaining in importance in the
international development cooperation agenda with each passing year. Accordingly and in constant
reference to this specific case, the article first explores the way this kind of SSC is evolving, its new
scope, and its main features. Next, it reconstructs the bloc’s political discourse regarding SSC, as
well as the way it is pervading the international debate. With this in mind, it draws on the various
editions of the Report on South-South Cooperation in Ibero-America, prepared by the Ibero-American
General Secretariat (SEGIB), an analytical tool that, in addition to providing information, constitutes,
both in itself and by structure, an intergovernmental, horizontal, and collective instance of SSC.