Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?

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Autor(a) principal: Almeida,Paulo Roberto de
Data de Publicação: 2013
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Contexto Internacional
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Resumo: There is an inherent contradiction between the regional integration projects in Latin America, albeit rhetorically conducted, and the staunch defense by most countries of their national sovereignty, which restricts and opposes many liberalization mechanisms implicit in, and necessary to, the integration processes, based on the rendition of sovereignty in some areas of economic relevance, including, and especially, trade and industrial policies, as well as other sectorial measures. The dilemma is historically compounded by a juridical tradition that places the retraction into an introverted version of the sovereignty principle into the context of conceptual elaborations well known in the international law, such as Calvo doctrine and the Drago principle. Brazil is one of the most resolute promoters of the national sovereignty principle among Latin American countries, clearly expressed in its constitutional chart and foreign policy stances, since the Second Hague peace conference of 1907. Other Latin American countries, mainly in Central America and the Caribbean, are much more motivated by real concerns over recurrent United States interventionism in the regional, in some cases by military means. This framework has somewhat infringed on integration projects, which is also hindered by economic nationalism and state interventionism.
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title Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?
spellingShingle Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?
Almeida,Paulo Roberto de
Regional Integration
National Sovereignty
Latin America
Decision-Making Institutions
Political Obstacles
title_short Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?
title_full Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?
title_fullStr Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?
title_full_unstemmed Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?
title_sort Sovereignty and regional integration in Latin America: a political conundrum?
author Almeida,Paulo Roberto de
author_facet Almeida,Paulo Roberto de
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Almeida,Paulo Roberto de
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Regional Integration
National Sovereignty
Latin America
Decision-Making Institutions
Political Obstacles
topic Regional Integration
National Sovereignty
Latin America
Decision-Making Institutions
Political Obstacles
description There is an inherent contradiction between the regional integration projects in Latin America, albeit rhetorically conducted, and the staunch defense by most countries of their national sovereignty, which restricts and opposes many liberalization mechanisms implicit in, and necessary to, the integration processes, based on the rendition of sovereignty in some areas of economic relevance, including, and especially, trade and industrial policies, as well as other sectorial measures. The dilemma is historically compounded by a juridical tradition that places the retraction into an introverted version of the sovereignty principle into the context of conceptual elaborations well known in the international law, such as Calvo doctrine and the Drago principle. Brazil is one of the most resolute promoters of the national sovereignty principle among Latin American countries, clearly expressed in its constitutional chart and foreign policy stances, since the Second Hague peace conference of 1907. Other Latin American countries, mainly in Central America and the Caribbean, are much more motivated by real concerns over recurrent United States interventionism in the regional, in some cases by military means. This framework has somewhat infringed on integration projects, which is also hindered by economic nationalism and state interventionism.
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