Latin America's New Era of Regionalism

The twenty-first century has witnessed a change of era in Latin American regional governance projects. Those projects seek—explicitly or implicitly—to reduce the influence of countries north of the Rio Grande in political, economic and social processes and outcomes in the region.

With these regional policy initiatives has come a new academic focus on diplomacy and regional integration. In a field loaded with studies and analyses that focus on U.S. hegemony and U.S. foreign policy, often at the expense of understanding regional dynamics and inter-state...

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