Resilience of Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean

As regionalisation becomes an increasingly hot topic, the authors explain why regionalism has been most successful in Latin America and analyse current processes and opinions of possible future developments in the region, including the Caribbean, Central America, Brazil, and Mexico.

Autorentext
Miguel Ángel Barrios, University del Salvador, Argentina José Briceño Ruiz, University of the Andes, Venezuela Fabián Campos Hernández, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Ángel M. Casas-Gragea, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Clodoaldo Bueno, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano, Stockholm University, Sweden Rodrigo Páez Montalbán, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Mario Vázquez Olivera, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Haroldo Ramanzini Júnior, University of São Paulo, Brazil Tullo Vigevani, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

Inhalt
Preface; Olivier Dabène Introduction: Regional integration: Linking Past and Present; Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and José Briceño Ruiz PART I: THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES 1. Geopolitics and Integration: a South American Perspective; Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano 2. Regional Integration in the Inside Trends of Latin American Dependency Thinking; Ángel M. Casas-Gragea PART II: SUB-REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 3. The Caribbean: Regional Unity in a Context of Diversity; José Briceño Ruiz 4. Central America: in Search of Lost Unity; Rodrigo Páez Montalbán 5. The Andes: a Long Tradition of Thought and Practice about Regional Integration; José Briceño Ruiz PART III: COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES 6. Latin American Integration: a Mexican Perspective; Mario Vázquez Olivera and Fabián Campos Hernández 7. Latin American Integration: a Brazilian View; Clodoaldo Bueno, Tullo Vigevani and Haroldo Ramanzini Júnior 8. The Political Economy of Regional Integration in Argentina: a Long and Winding Road; Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and Miguel Ángel Barrios Conclusion: About the Resilience of Latin American Regionalism; Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and José Briceño Ruiz