... ideological proximity. This ideological proximity was given, for a certain period of time, by a major political project, launched in 2004, which represented a very important guideline for South American concerted political planning. Here, we are talking about UNASUR, the intergovernmental organization born of twelve South American nations, which joined the already existing MERCOSUR, the common market of Latin America.
The history of these types of unification, or even before that of regional trade, has in ...
... becoming one of the poles in a multipolar world. The establishment of such a multipolar international order is favored today by each and every LAC country, and the creation of the region-wide CELAC as an advisory body, similar to the earlier structures UNASUR (the Union of South American Nations) and SADC (South American Defense Council), offers additional evidence for this position. In contrast, the EU, which has not yet completely overcome the consequences of economic crisis and is now facing an identity ...
... second decade of the 21st century Latin America had experienced an integration boom. Four major integration associations were formed in a relatively short time, between 2004 and 2011: ALBA (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) and UNASUR in 2004, and the Pacific Alliance and CELAC in 2011. It was UNASUR that began to open the way for continental unity in this integration marathon. The bloc’s ambitious launch and the far-reaching plans of its early years turned into something ...
