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Regional Integration in Latin America - The Pacific Alliance a Way Ahead
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The Pacific Alliance as a Regional Trade Agreement: Analysis from an Ius Internationalist Approach

Abstract:
This paper analyses critically the integration model proposed by the Pacific Alliance (PA) from the perspective of the legal foundations of Colombia’s foreign policy, in order to determine the degree of normative convergence between the Colombian constitutional order and this particular trade agreement.

This research uses legal technique and case-law analysis as research methodologies, offering a detailed panorama of the normative development of the PA and its relationship with the constitutional requirements regulating the international relations of Colombia.

The paper argues that despite being at an initial stage in relation to its normative and institutional structure, the PA has emerged as a second-generation regional trade agreement (RTA), which complements its commercial trajectory with political, social and productive integration agendas, promoting the diversification of international economic relations of its members without altering or modifying their sovereign powers. The above allows showing its compatibility with the constitutional mandate pro integratione, particularly in regard to the idea of promoting the internationalisation of Colombian economic relations with countries of Latin America and other world regions.

Resumen:
Este artículo examina críticamente el modelo de integración propuesto por la Alianza del Pacífico (AP) desde la perspectiva de los fundamentos jurídicos de la política exterior colombiana, con el objetivo de determinar el grado de convergencia normativa existente entre el ordenamiento constitucional colombiano y este instrumento comercial.

La investigación se desarrolla utilizando la técnica jurídica y el análisis jurisprudencial como metodologías de investigación, y se ofrece un panorama detallado sobre el desarrollo normativo de la AP y su relación con los preceptos constitucionales que regulan las relaciones internacionales de Colombia.

El artículo concluye que pese a encontrarse en una etapa inicial con relación a su estructura normativa e institucional, la AP se perfila como un acuerdo comercial regional (ACR) de segunda generación que complementa su vocación comercial con agendas de integración política, social y productiva, estimulando la diversificación de las relaciones económicas internacionales de sus miembros sin alterar o modificar sus competencias soberanas. Lo anterior permite constatar su compatibilidad con el mandato constitucional pro integratione, particularmente con respecto al ideal de promover la internacionalización de las relaciones económicas de Colombia con países de la región y de otras latitudes.

Authors: Edgard Cuestas Zamora & Ulf Thoene
Spanish Title: La Alianza del Pacífico como acuerdo comercial regional: análisis desde un enfoque ius internacionalista
Full Document: 2020, Cuestas & Thoene, La Alianza del Pacífico como acuerdo comercial regional – análisis desde un enfoque ius internacionalista

January 14, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio

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