Resumen

BAZAN, Víctor. Supra-national integration interacting with federalism: perspectives and challenges. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2009, vol.42, n.124, pp.59-124. ISSN 2448-4873.

In this contribution, the author deals with a sensitive question: does the establishment of supranational blocks, which involves a centralization process, conform to intrastate federalism which is or should be highly characterized by its political decentralization? He furthermore analyzes some relevant and conflicting aspects of the interaction of both processes such us the challenges that community praxis poses on complex territorial and political structured States; supranational integration eventual effects on substate entities; and how these entities could take part in the asceding and descending phases of community processes.

Palabras llave : Integration law; Federalism; Mercosur; European Union.