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This collection of essays aims to contribute to our understanding of the process of regional integration currently underway in South America. Mercosur is a regional manifestation of a world-wide process of globalisation whose driving force is economic, but which is potentially much more than that. It involves a variety of political, social and cultural processes, some of them barely at an embryonic stage, though each advancing at its own rate of progress. Mercosur's neo-liberal matrix, however, has led to the economic decision-making process being taken outside the realm of politics, thus leaving large sections of the population with no mechanism to influence the integration process so that it addresses their urgent needs and demands.
List of contents
Contents: Marcos Guedes de Oliveira: Limitations on Democratic Transitions in Latin America and the Fate of Mercosur - Francisco Domínguez: Democracy and Economic Integration: The Continental Context - Marcos Costa Lima: Mercosur and the New Global Order: a Methodological Essay - Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros: Multi Level Governance and the Problem of Balance within Mercosur - Tullo Vigevani/Karina Pasquariello Mariano/Marcelo Fernandes de Oliveira: Mercosur: Democracy and Political Actors - Olivier Dabène: Does Mercosur Still Have a Project? - Peter Lambert: Paraguay in Mercosur: ¿para qué? - Suranjit Kumar Saha: Core-Periphery in the Americas: Understandig the Political Economy of Mercosur and FTAA.
About the author
The Editors: Francisco Domínguez is Head of Latin American Studies and Spanish and Head of the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Middlesex University, London, UK. He has published on Cuba's economic reform, economic integration in Latin America, and NAFTA. He has been visiting scholar at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Central and Los Andes Universities of Venezuela. Editor of
Identity and Discursive Practices: Spain and Latin America (2000).
Marcos Aurelio Guedes de Oliveira is Professor of International Politics at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and CNPq researcher in Brazil. He was
Chair Simon Bolivar 2000 at the Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amerique latine at Sorbonne University, Paris III and Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Middlesex University from 1999 to 2000. His latest book is
Mercosul e Política published in 2001, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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«Una cooperación de diferentes Estados nunca tiene solamente efectos económicos, sino también políticos globales, que por su parte, tienen efectos retroactivos sobre la organización interna de los Estados participantes. El libro en su conjunto es una contribución exitosa para la discusión de todos estos aspectos.» (Peter Bauer, Iberoamericana)>BR>
