THE SOUTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION PUZZLE:

CORPORATIVE INTERESTS, FOREIGN POLICY AND STRATEGY IN COSIPLAN- UNASUR

Authors

  • Amanda Carolina Barrenengoa Universidad Nacional de La Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2018.147374

Keywords:

South American Integration,, Foreign Policy, Corporative Interests, Social Actors, Strategy

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the investigation about social actors in the South American Integration Process of the last decade from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the South American Infrastructure and Planning Council (COSIPLAN). It focus on reconstructing a part of a big puzzle that brings together a number of social actors, to show a network that exceeds the state’s margins and involves governments, companies, financing agencies, banks, productive sectors, state officials and populations. Starting at the Brazilian case, attention is paid to the interests of the ruling class and the way they are linked to the States, finding a wide repertoire of problems and dimensions. At this point, conflicts arise, which lead us to ask ourselves about the limitations, the external and internal factor and those contradictions with which the governments of Lula encountered. From a qualitative methodology, we were able to account for a multiplicity of actors of ruling clases, whose interests and actions were intertwined with the strategies promoted by the Brazilian State itself. While the social and political dynamics advanced, the perspectives and positions of these actors were modified, for various reasons. As a result of these inquiries, we could
observe the multiple forms of manifestation of their interests and relationships.

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Author Biography

  • Amanda Carolina Barrenengoa, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

    P.h.D in Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the National University of La Plata, Argentina.

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Published

2019-10-09

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How to Cite

Barrenengoa, A. C. (2019). THE SOUTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION PUZZLE:: CORPORATIVE INTERESTS, FOREIGN POLICY AND STRATEGY IN COSIPLAN- UNASUR. Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies, 17(33), 101-126. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2018.147374