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UE: a transatlantic actor of ACN integration
Parra Santamaria, Lusmiriam Andrea
2011
 

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Keywords :
EU-AL; interregionalism; United States
Abstract :
[en] Being European interregional strategy towards the CAN, traduced (among others) by the encouragement of Latin-America integration, this research wonders about the nature of the EU’s actions for satisfying this ambition, their degree of influence and their efficiency in this goal. The working hypothesis is that the EU’s interregional strategy, of stimulation of Latin American integration, has evolved. It has moved from an idealized vision of total integration for ACN (at every level) towards a complex and pragmatic approach. This approach is complex in that it advances in two ways. Politically the EU- ACN relations are region-to-region. Economically, they become into a region-to-country dialogue. The result of the Trade Agreement EU – ACN, witnesses of that. Taking into account these results and entirely adhering to the assertion “interregionalism, as practiced by the EU, has the purpose of building and consolidating regional orders, whereas the US regional activities rather have the purpose of preventing strong regional formations to grow” (Hetnne, 2007), we demonstrate that the European interregional behavior gets comparable to the US one. It has Americanized. This Americanization implicates a triangular relationship among EU, ACN and US. It affects not only the characteristics of Latin-American integration but also the European approach to its own initiatives of stimulation of this phenomenon. It has given place to a combination of interregional strategies that we have called “complex interregionalism”. This name has been given to this phenomenon because it combines two kinds of interregionalism (pure and hybrid one) simultaneously. This intervention is divided in two main parts and a conclusion. 1. The first part concerns the introduction of the concepts of pure and hybrid interregionalism. 2. The second part concerns, the European interregional strategy. It is presented and compared to the US’ towards ACN. By this contrasting exercise, a double and complex EU’s interregional behavior is verified. It is a region-to-region political dialogue and region-to-country economical one. The results of the negotiation of the Free Trade Agreement EU-ACN are used as the illustration of this statement. In fact, this treaty, at the beginning conceived to stimulate ACN regional integration, became a factor of erosion of the Andean unity. It permits to identify an Americanization de facto of the European interregional strategy. 3. Conclusions. This conclusion part is sub-divided in two. First, we present the conclusions about the complex interregionalism of EU towards ACN. Second, we open a discussion about the deep reasons of the European interregional behavior. The objectives of the two European approaches to the ACN strategy of integration. Has it been imposed by the international needs? by the necessity of building other regions as valuable interlocutors? or by the commitment to development ?
Disciplines :
Political science, public administration & international relations
Author, co-author :
Parra Santamaria, Lusmiriam Andrea ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Doct. sc. polit. & social. (droit-Bologne)
Language :
English
Title :
UE: a transatlantic actor of ACN integration
Publication date :
2011
Event name :
Sixth Transatlantic Studies Conference
Event date :
du 20 au 22 octobre 2011
Audience :
International
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