New Depoliticization Cycle? Resilience and Challenges for South American Regionalism

• In Event: Explaining Latin American Regionalism in an Age of Uncertainty

Abstract

Latin American and, the recent South American regionalism, have been characterized by stop and go patterns of evolution. Those cycles are strongly correlated with patterns of politicization and depoliticization. This papers explores how the recent cycle of depoliticization in South America is affecting sectoral cooperation configurations within South American regionalism. The first question the paper studies is why cooperation outcomes are evident in some areas while very limited in others. The second question is why some regional cooperation agendas have stagnated or even flinched while other sectoral cooperation agendas have consolidated.

Author

• Cintia V Quiliconi, FLACSO-Ecuador