Abstract

MORALES FAJARDO, María Esther. A Revision of Regionalization and Regionalism: The First Processes of Regional Integration in Latin America. CONfines relacion. internaci. ciencia política [online]. 2007, vol.3, n.6, pp.65-80. ISSN 1870-3569.

This article analyses the first regionalism in Latin America, understood as the first regional economic integration agreements which appeared in the sixties, particularly the mechanisms of integration ALALC-ALADI, MCCA and PA. For such purpose, firstly the author presents a theoretical reflection about the regionalization and its political projects, in other words, the regionalism. Then, the international circumstances and the economic policies that served for developing these mechanisms of regional integration in Latin America are depicted.

Keywords : regional integration; Latin America; regionalism; regionalization; economic integration.