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Regional Integration in Latin America - The Pacific Alliance a Way Ahead
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The Pacific Alliance: Characteristics and Dimensions of a New Integration Process in Latin America

Abstract:
The Pacific Alliance is a new process of integration in Latin American that has attracted extraordinary interest in all States of the region and the international society. His most immediate background are bilateral agreements between states that make up the Alliance and the establishment of the Pacific Arch Forum. Since its creation, the Pacific Alliance has made significant achievements in the field of integration, but it is too early to assess results. The interest of the Pacific Alliance for economic issues, particularly in the area of trade and investment, is remarkable. This interest shows the priority of economic matters in this integration process. The progress in the political and social dimensions of the integration has been limited.

Resumen:
La Alianza del Pacífico es un nuevo proceso de integración en el área latinoamericana que ha despertado un enorme interés en el conjunto de Estados de la región y de la sociedad internacional. Sus antecedentes más inmediatos son los acuerdos bilaterales entre los estados que conforman la Alianza y la creación del foro Arco del Pacífico. Desde su creación, la Alianza del Pacífico ha alcanzado logros significativos en el ámbito de la integración, pero aún es pronto para valorar sus resultados. Destaca el interés de la Alianza del Pacífico por las cuestiones de carácter económico, en particular, en el ámbito comercial y de las inversiones, lo que refleja la prioridad de lo económico en este proceso de integración. Hay avances muy limitados, todavía en las dimensiones política y social de la integración.

Author: Elena C. Díaz Galán
Spanish title: La Alianza del Pacífico: características y dimensiones de un nuevo proceso de integración en América Latina
Full document: 2015, Díaz, La Alianza del Pacífico, Características y Dimensiones

March 10, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio
Journal Articles, Spanish

Cooperation and Regional Integration Projects in America at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Abstract:
The American continent is organised around four major regional economic blocs: North American Free Trade Agreement, the Pacific Alliance, the Southern Common Market and the Andean Community. Their role is crucial today to channel regional cooperation and promote the development of a territory that has great socio-economic contrasts between Anglo and Francophone communities in the North and Latin American areas of the South. The integration of fragmented initiatives and profound local production disruptions in the South, aligned with suspicions and preponderant U.S. commercial interests hinder the prospects for a single economic unit on a continental scale. In this context, the article examines the potential that the most significant supranational organisations have and their geopolitical implications.

Resumen:
El continente americano se organiza básicamente en torno a cuatro grandes bloques económicos regionales: el Tratado de Libre comercio de América del Norte, La Alianza del Pacífico, el Mercado Común del Sur y la Comunidad Andina. Su papel es hoy fundamental para encauzar la cooperación regional e impulsar el desarrollo de un territorio que presenta grandes contrastes socioeconómicos entre las comunidades anglosajonas y francófonas del Norte y los espacios latinoamericanos del Sur, donde las iniciativas de integración fragmentadas y los profundos desajustes productivos locales, unido a los recelos y la preponderancia de los intereses comerciales de Estados Unidos, dificultan un proyecto único de unidad económica a escala continental. En ese contexto se analizan las potencialidades de las organizaciones supranacionales más significativas y sus implicaciones geopolíticas.

Author: Antonio Doval
Spanish Title: Los projectos de cooperación e integración regional en América a principios del siglo XXI
Full document: 2015, Doval, Los Proyectos de Cooperación e Integración Regional en América a Principios del Siglo XXI

March 10, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio
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Towards Modular Regionalism: The Proliferation of Latin American Cooperation

Abstract:
This article addresses three questions: why there was a surge in regional cooperation projects in Latin America in the last decade; how to characterize the current multi-faceted scenario; and how to make this complexity work. After a review of six theoretical perspectives, an original conceptual approach is proposed: “modular regionalism.” This credibly answers the three questions and offers policy recommendations.

Author: Gian Luca Gardini
Full document2015, Gardini, Towards Modular Regionalism- the Proliferation of Latin American Cooperation

March 10, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio
Journal Articles, Spanish

The Pacific Alliance and Asia Pacific: Parallel and Legal Limitations for Inter-Regional Cooperation

Abstract:
The study begins by putting on balance different ways to assess the political success of the Pacific Alliance (PA) during the few years of its existence. The text insists that the success was comprehensive among extra-regional governments and very limited among the governments of the countries in the Asia Pacific (the geostrategic target for the PA projection) countries.

In this context, the text proposes explanations for both situations. On the one hand, the document discusses the fundamental principles of the Pacific Alliance on the basis of legal axes that marked the convergence of the Mexican government with the authorities of the European Union in the Democratic Clause-Mexico Global Agreement European Union. The Accord refers to legal principles that require contracting parties to respect, within the scope of the sovereignty of each one, fundamental democratic principles.

Moreover, the paper analyses the factors limiting a similar convergence between the members of the PA and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). On the PA-side, it is the express wish to promote democracy and human rights, illustrated by the reforms of the fraction X of the Article 89 of the Constitution of the United Mexican States. On the ASEAN side, it is the vindication of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations; in its fundamental documents, the Association stresses non-intervention in the affairs of other States, renunciation of the threat or use of force, etc.

Resumen:
El estudio pone sobre la balanza diferentes maneras de evaluar el éxito político alcanzado por la Alianza del Pacífi co (AP) durante su existencia. Insiste en que el éxito ha sido muy amplio entre gobiernos de países extra-regionales y muy limitado entre los gobiernos de los países de Asia del Pacífico. El texto propone explicaciones sobre los alcances diferenciados de la proyección de la AP. Analiza principios básicos de la Alianza del Pacifico sobre la base de los ejes jurídicos que marcaron la convergencia del gobierno mexicano con las autoridades de la Unión Europea en la Cláusula Democrática del Acuerdo Global Unión Europea-México.

Este acuerdo se trata de principios jurídicos que obligan a las partes contratantes a respetar, dentro del ámbito de la soberanía de cada una de ellas, los principios democráticos fundamentales. Por otra parte, se analizan los factores que limitan una convergencia análoga entre los integrantes de la AP y los de la Asociación de Naciones del Sureste de Asia (ANSEA). Del lado de la AP, se refleja la voluntad expresa de promover la democracia y los derechos humanos, ilustrada por las reformas del artículo 89 de la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Del lado de la ANSEA, se trata de la reivindicación de los principios de la Carta de las Naciones, recuperados en los documentos fundamentales de la asociación.

Author: Juan José Ramírez Bonilla
Spanish Title: La Alianza del Pacífico y Asia del Pacífico: Paralelos y Limitantes Jurídicos para la Cooperación Interregional
Full document: 2016, Ramirez, La Alianza del Pacífico y Asia del Pacífico- Paralelos y Limitantes Jurídicos para la Cooperación Interregional

February 11, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio
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