Politics of regionalism: the European Union and Mercosur cases contrasted
The purpose of this work is to carry out a study of regional integration processes in political terms. In other words, although such processes underway in various parts of the world are or have been in principle of an eminently economic nature, they are conditioned by political factors of different kinds and make national and transnational political actors to agree and trade-off, mobilize resources, and solve in a shared framework the regional socio-economic issues that affect their domestic reality. Indeed, regional integration depends, in its origin and development, on far-reaching political decisions and institutions. In this context, regional integration —in the framework of contemporary international relations— is understood as a process by which various States form an extended political unit, without the member countries losing their essential original identity, to constitute a community with its own goals, representing the bloc as a whole. Thus, any integration process can surpass the status of classical international organizations, and it has the potential to broaden and deepen, but at the same time, it stops before reaching a stage that would imply the total fusion of its parties into a new sovereign whole. Thus, this paper aims to show the unique political entity of these regional communities, as well as to contribute to Comparative Politics and Law studies, by analyzing the cases of the European Union as the most developed example of Regionalism, and Mercosur, as a potential entity of the same category.
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| Format: | Artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Departamento de Lenguas
2024
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| Subjects: | INTEGRACION REGIONAL, RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES, UNION EUROPEA, MERCOSUR, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/19213 |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this work is to carry out a study of regional integration processes in political
terms. In other words, although such processes underway in various parts of the world are or
have been in principle of an eminently economic nature, they are conditioned by political
factors of different kinds and make national and transnational political actors to agree and
trade-off, mobilize resources, and solve in a shared framework the regional socio-economic
issues that affect their domestic reality. Indeed, regional integration depends, in its origin and
development, on far-reaching political decisions and institutions. In this context, regional
integration —in the framework of contemporary international relations— is understood as a
process by which various States form an extended political unit, without the member
countries losing their essential original identity, to constitute a community with its own goals,
representing the bloc as a whole. Thus, any integration process can surpass the status of
classical international organizations, and it has the potential to broaden and deepen, but at the
same time, it stops before reaching a stage that would imply the total fusion of its parties into
a new sovereign whole. Thus, this paper aims to show the unique political entity of these
regional communities, as well as to contribute to Comparative Politics and Law studies, by
analyzing the cases of the European Union as the most developed example of Regionalism,
and Mercosur, as a potential entity of the same category. |
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