The Rise of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism in Latin America

Latin America's New Regional Architecture: A Cooperative or Segmented Regional Governance Complex?

“…Contrary to Riggirozzi and Tussie's (2012b) mostly positive view of current trends, Malamud and Gardini (2012) take a more critical view of the proliferation of regional organizations. They state that "the presence of segmented and overlapping regionalist projects is not a manifestation of successful integration but, on the contrary, signals the exhaustion of its potential" (Malamud and Gardini 2012: 117).…”

Paradiplomacia transfronteiriça no Mercosul: uma visão crítica

“…The 'beyond trade' institutional redesign of MERCOSUR, initiated in the early 2000s, sought to advance a social and economic development agenda, implementing alternative or autonomous political projects toward what was identified as post-hegemonic or post-neoliberal regionalism (RIGGIROZZI and TUSSIE, 2012). Among its many changes, the reinventive or resilient historical character of MERCOSUR (presented during the last fifteen years) begot an institutional opening to the participation of subnational actors (such as municipalities, provinces, departments, and federated states), which needed and demanded a more democratic arena to attempt reaching higher levels of economic and social development within cooperative or integrative projects.…”

UNASUR: poder y acción en Suramérica

“…Posteriormente, el fin de la Guerra Fría permitió la eclosión de un nuevo regionalismo poshegemónico que se habría de consolidar a principios del siglo XXI (Riggirozzi & Tussie, 2012), el cual facilitó la creación y consolidación de la Unasur, como una expresión multilateral propiamente suramericana. De acuerdo con Alcides Costa Vaz (comunicación personal, 14 de octubre de 2013) y Félix Peña (comunicación personal, 16 de agosto de 2013), este reciente proceso de "suramericanización" de las políticas exteriores locales, se encargó rápidamente de "desmantelar" y solucionar crisis internas e interestatales, y facilitó el avance en la transparencia y cooperación en defensa.…”