1st Edition

The Reconfiguration of Twenty-first Century Latin American Regionalism Actors, Processes, Contradictions and Prospects

Edited By Rowan Lubbock, Ernesto Vivares Copyright 2023
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

This cutting-edge volume brings together a diverse roster of scholars to shed light on the reconfiguration of twenty-first century Latin American regionalism. Reflecting on both the multiplicity of regional integration across Latin America (LA) and the theoretically pluralist turn in contemporary scholarship on LA politics and International Relations, this edited volume proposes an ‘integrative... Read more

1. The reconfiguration of twenty-first century Latin American regionalism: actors, processes, contradictions, and prospects

Rowan Lubbock and Ernesto Vivares

2. Capitalist geopolitics and Latin America’s long road to regionalism

Rowan Lubbock

3. The challenges of economic integration in Latin America: searching for consensus in contexts of globalization. The case of MERCOSUR (1991–2019)

Mercedes Botto

4. The Pacific Alliance: regional integration as neoliberal discipline

Marcel Nelson

5. Shifting tides, regional reverberations: a class-relational analysis of the ALBA-TCP

Kristin Ciupa

6. The credibility of regional policymaking: insights from South America

Pia Riggirozzi and Matt Ryan

7. Indigenous regionalism in the Andes

Roberta Rice

8. Critical Latin American agroecology as a regionalism from below

Peter M. Rosset, Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Valentín Val and Nils McCune

Biography

Rowan Lubbock is Lecturer in Political Economy of Development at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. His research centres on the agrarian dynamics of International Relations, particularly within Latin America, and he has previously published in Journal of International Relations and Development, New Political Economy, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Globalizations. He is currently writing a manuscript on the politics of food sovereignty within the regional organization of the ALBA-TCP and Venezuela.

Ernesto Vivares is Professor in the Department of International Studies and Communication at FLACSO Ecuador. He has published widely on the topic of Latin American politics, development, and regional integration, and edited two recent volumes: Regionalism, Development and the Post-Commodities Boom in South America (2018) and The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy: Conversations and Inquiries (2020).