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Regional Integration in Latin America - The Pacific Alliance a Way Ahead
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The Pacific Alliance: A Significant Change for Regional Integration in Latin America

Abstract:
The establishment of the Pacific Alliance will have a strong impact in the process of regional integration in Latin America, as long as it would be able to consolidate. The Alliance is comprised of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, with Costa Rica and Panama as observer states. It restates the role of commerce and economic issues in a process of integration that prioritised politics during the last decade, through the rejection of free trade agreements by ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America). Moreover, the Alliance emerges with the aim to insert into the globalised world, particularly the Asia Pacific. Mexico’s membership breaks with the disjunctive distinction between Latin America as a whole and South America. The emergence of the Pacific Alliance represents a challenge to Brasil’s project to consolidate regional integration around UNASUR. Regarding the European Union and the bi-regional relations with Latin America, the Pacific Alliance members, as well as the observer states, signed agreements with the European Union, in contrast to other situations in the region.

Resumen:
El surgimiento de la Alianza del Pacífico, integrada por Chile, Colombia, México y Perú, y con Costa Rica y Panamá de observadores, tendrá, en la medida que se consolide, un fuerte impacto sobre el proceso de integración regional en América Latina. La Alianza revaloriza el comercio y la economía, en un proceso que en la última década insistió en la concertación política, ante el rechazo del ALBA a los Tratados de Libre Comercio (TLC). Asimismo, la Alianza surge con el ánimo de vincularse al mundo globalizado, especialmente a Asia-Pacífico. La presencia de México rompe por la vía de los hechos la disyuntiva entre América del Sur o América Latina en su conjunto. Desde esta perspectiva, el surgimiento de la Alianza supone un desafío para el proyecto de Brasil de consolidar la integración regional en torno a Unasur. Finalmente, y en lo que atañe a la relación birregional entre la UE y América Latina, se da la circunstancia de que tanto los países miembros de la Alianza como los observadores tienen firmados con la UE Tratados de Asociación o Tratados Multipartes, algo que contrasta con la mayor parte de las situaciones existentes.

Author: Carlos Malamud
2012, Malamud, Alianza Pacífico Integración América Latina

August 10, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio
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The Pacific Alliance and Latin-American Regionalism: In Search of an Autonomist Revitalisation of Integration

Abstract:
The Pacific Alliance (PA) is the most recent attempt of economic regional integration in Latin America. This research article analyses the PA from a constructivist theoretical perspective establishing a relationship between the identities of the founding states of the integration process and the definition of its institutional structure.

This research hence reviews the integration mechanism of the Alliance from a political perspective as well as from the main approaches to integration prevalent in the region. It is argued that this initiative was designed in order to defend state national interests and react to an aspiration of regional leadership. This explains the adoption of a model of strategic cooperation seeking to strengthen the relationships with powers outside the region and to reduce the dependence on the hegemonic regional power.

Resumen:
Este artículo presenta una caracterización del más reciente intento de integración económica regional en América Latina, la Alianza del Pacífico, a partir de un enfoque constructivista que establece una relación entre los rasgos identitarios de los Estados fundadores del proceso y la definición de su estructura institucional.

Con tal finalidad, se hace una revisión del mecanismo tanto desde una perspectiva política como desde los principales enfoques sobre integración en la región. El documento concluye que esta iniciativa fue diseñada para defender los intereses nacionales y responder a una pretensión de liderazgo regional, lo cual explica la adopción de un modelo de cooperación estratégica para el fortalecimiento de las relaciones con potencias extrarregionales y la reducción de la dependencia frente a la potencia hegemónica regional.

Authors: Ulf Thoene, Edgard Junior Cuestas Zamora and María Carmelina Londoño
Spanish Title: La Alianza del Pacífico y el Regionalismo Latinoamericano: En Búsqueda de una Revitalización Autonomista de la Integración
Full document: 2017,Thoene et al, La Alianza del Pacífico y el Regionalismo Latinoamericano

February 11, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio

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