Abstract

WEXELL SEVERO, Luciano. International system and integration of South America. E&c [online]. 2019, vol.2, n.9, pp.25-46. ISSN 2477-9245.  https://doi.org/10.37228/estado_comunes.v2.n9.2019.116.

The objective of this article is to reflect and interpret the Regional Integration of South America within the framework of an International System that is hierarchical, expansive and in constant transformation from its origins in the 15th century. In spite of these structural characteristics, it is evident that some national units have the possibility of answering the hierarchical order and moving about. This movement depends on a number of variables, such as material and symbolic, endogenous and exogenous conditions, as well as the continued political decision of the national coalitions of power to adopt catch-up strategies. Both the development of the productive forces, inward, and the greater autonomy, outward, can be driven by Regional Integration. That can become, simultaneously, the potentializing energy of the two efforts, of development and autonomy. However, the successes or setbacks of the regional integration process will depend on the existence of a country with the conditions to sustain the push politically and economically. In addition to the necessary material and symbolic capabilities, a strategic will expressed in clear policies of the leader, lasting over time, that sustain the deconstruction of asymmetries and obtain the support of other countries would be fundamental.

Keywords : International system; integration; South America; countries; national power; autonomy; productive forces..

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