Post-liberal regionalism in South America: in a depoliticization phase? The cases of ALBA, UNASUR and MERCOSUR

 

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Author: Alvarez, María Victoria
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publication Date:2019
Description:After five decades of waves of boom and decline of regionalism, in the early years of the 21st century, South American regionalism was reconsidered in a post-liberal design. In particular, an initiative of complementarity and cooperation materialized in ALBA, and a scheme of cross-sectoral dialogue and political cooperation, UNASUR. Meanwhile, MERCOSUR, a resilient regionalist scheme, was also renovated in post-liberal terms. A decade after the rise of post-liberal regionalism, we attend to a phase of less dynamism. In this paper we describe the latest developments of ALBA and UNASUR, as well as MERCOSUR, following the perspective of Dabène of cycles of politicization. The question is whether these schemes are in a phase of depoliticization. If this is so, this development raises the question of whether they will be the sufficiently resilient as to overcome this phase and move toward one of deeply repoliticization.
Country:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Language:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/12612
Online Access:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/12612
Keyword:Sudamérica
Regionalismo
Regionalismo post-liberal
ciclos de politización
ALBA
UNASUR
MERCOSUR
South America
Regionalism
Post-liberal regionalism
cycles of politicization