Latin America: integration or fragmentation?
What is the explanation for Latin America’s position within the international system and what are the opportunities and challenges posed by globalization? Why, in spite of high international reserves and an improved fiscal situation, does Latin America continue to lag behind other regions? How is Latin American integration forged and defined by factors such as sub-regional integration paralysis, the increasing gap between North and South Latin America, the interests of extra-regional players such as China and the European Union, the different strategies to handle U.S. relations, the competition for or lack of leadership, domestic and foreign problems influencing regional security, the resurgence of energy as an hemispheric priority and the role of poverty and inequality in the Latin American international agenda? These questions served to guide the papers prepared in the course of this project conducted by the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Grupo Vidanta Foundation. The articles were written over a period of almost two years and their several versions were presented and analyzed in three workshops held in Washington, D.C. (2006), Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico (2007) and Mexico City (2007).
The primary objective of the project was to provide a preeminent study of Latin America’s position in the international system, the main opportunities and challenges the world order of the first decades of the 21st century poses to the region and the status of and trends in intraregional relations.
The papers were compiled by Ricardo Lagos in a book entitled América Latina: ¿integración o fragmentación? (Edhasa, Buenos Aires, 2008).(Edhasa, Buenos Aires, 2008).
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