Handbook of South American Regionalism

José Briceño Ruiz has a PhD in political science from the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence – Science Po Aix, France. He holds a master’s degree in international relations (Durham University, England) and a DEA in comparative political science (Science Po Aix). He is a professor-researcher at the Research Center of Latin American Studies and Caribbean (CIALC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, the Instituto Luis María Mora and Universidad de las Americas, Mexico.

• PART I Regional spaces in South America.- Introduction: the building of South America as an international region.- Regional Agreements in the New International Scenario: the Andean Region Case .- The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO): a historical balance.- Mercosur: challenges and prospects towards a new global landscape.- The Construction, De-construction, and Reconstruction of UNASUR.- Pacific Alliance in Times of Global Transition.- PART II Country perspectives.- Brazil and Leadership in South American regionalism.- Argentina and regionalism in the Southern Cone: from prominence to decline.- Alternative Integration and Venezuela.- Colombia and regional integration. Rhetoric and results.- So close, yet so far away…Mexico and South American regionalism.- PART III Conceptual and analytical perspectives.- Globalization, Deglobalization, and the Geostructural Foundations of Regionalism in South America.- Security Governance in South America.- Foreign policy and regionalism in South America: the place of autonomy.- The actors of South American regionalism.- Liquid Institutional Designs and South American Regionalism.- From a Landlocked to a Water-Centric South American Integration.- PART IV Economic dimensions of South American regionalism.- Regionalism and Development in South American: Between Industrialization, Sustainability, and Human Well-Being.- The trade dimension of South American regionalism.- South American Infrastructure Integration: Background and Challenges.- Financial Cooperation in South America.- South American regionalism and asymmetries.- PART V Political and legal dimensions of South American regionalism.- Regionalism and democracy in South America: achievements and limitations.- One Hundred Years of Populist Regionalism in South America.- Imagining the Region Otherwise: Emancipatory Ideologies in the Making of South American Regionalism.- The right and far-right in South American regionalism.- The right and far-right in South American regionalism.- Civil society and regionalism in South America.- Indigenous peoples in South America regionalism.- PART VI Social dimensions of South American regionalism.- Environment and climate change in South American regionalism.- Gender Governance in South American Regionalism: Institutions, Norms, and Policy Frameworks.- South American regionalism and migration governance.- Health Cooperation in South America: making the case of a multilayered regionalism.- Cooperation for Development in South America: the South-South and Triangular Cooperation contributions to regionalism and to interregionalism.