Abstract

RIOS SIERRA, Jerónimo. THE UNASUR AND THE BOLIVARIAN ALLIANCE FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR AMERICA: ANOTHER LOST DECADE?. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2017, vol.12, n.2, pp.111-131. ISSN 1909-3063.  https://doi.org/10.18359/ries.2310.

The purpose of this paper aims to reflect on the scope and meaning of the last two decades of Latin American regional integration. Specially, two schemes of post-liberal regionalism are studied, as ALBA and Unasur. These two schemes respond to two different ways of understanding the region, one from Venezuela, the other from Brazil. However, up to now, they do not offer great results or consolidate, strictly speaking, a post-hegemonic regional scenario. Anyway, we cannot forget other factors in understanding the uncertainty that characterizes the Latin American regionalism: factors such as ideological polarity and Westphalian nationalism, and other economic factors such as the current political and economic crisis in Brazil or Venezuela, or the emergence of new regionalism initiatives such as the Pacific Alliance.

Keywords : Open-regionalism; post-liberal regionalism; Latin American; Unasur; ALBA.

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