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BERNAL MEZA, Raúl. Globalization and Regionalization in Contemporary International Political Economy: Inputs for New Theorizing on Border Regions. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2018, vol.13, n.2, pp.13-37. ISSN 1909-3063.  https://doi.org/10.18359/ries.3229.

Except for or in the presence of conflicting relations among South American nations, border regions are considered areas of exchange, interconnection, integration and cooperation. These are spaces of a specific type of regionalism, border regionalism, attached to the broader concept of regionalism that, as such, is part of contemporary processes occurring in international political economy. The aim of this article is to provide analytical and conceptual elements to theorize on this modern expression of regionalism based on the conviction that there is no theorizing that explains or interprets all regionalisms. Current regionalisms entail qualitative and quantitative changes with respect to previous stages of the international political economy. Within this framework of bilateral or multilateral political relations linked by common non-militarized borders, border regionalism or cross-border regionalism has been influenced by three processes: 1) change in the nature and meaning of border; 2) processes of transnationalization and interdependence; and 3) changes in techno-productive patterns and international trade rules. It is concluded that border integration regionalism, in the case of developing countries, also depends on dynamics derived from the character of extroverted economies, which are part of new regionalization processes and spaces.

Palabras clave : economy; globalization; international politics; regionalism.

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