Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?



Título del documento: Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?
Revista: Contexto internacional
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000399904
ISSN: 0102-8529
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Centro Universitario de Brasilia, Brasilia, Distrito Federal. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Jul-Dic
Volumen: 35
Número: 2
Paginación: 471-495
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés There is an inherent contradiction between the regional integration projects in Latin America, albeit rhetorically conducted, and the staunch defense by most countries of their national sovereignty, which restricts and opposes many liberalization mechanisms implicit in, and necessary to, the integration processes, based on the rendition of sovereignty in some areas of economic relevance, including, and especially, trade and industrial policies, as well as other sectorial measures. The dilemma is historically compounded by a juridical tradition that places the retraction into an introverted version of the sovereignty principle into the context of conceptual elaborations well known in the international law, such as Calvo doctrine and the Drago principle. Brazil is one of the most resolute promoters of the national sovereignty principle among Latin American countries, clearly expressed in its constitutional chart and foreign policy stances, since the Second Hague peace conference of 1907. Other Latin American countries, mainly in Central America and the Caribbean, are much more motivated by real concerns over recurrent United States interventionism in the regional, in some cases by military means. This framework has somewhat infringed on integration projects, which is also hindered by economic nationalism and state interventionism
Disciplinas: Relaciones internacionales
Palabras clave: Política internacional,
América Latina,
Integración regional,
Regionalismo,
Soberanía,
Toma de decisiones,
Conflictos políticos,
Integración política
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