Abstract

VITELLI, Marina  and  PERES MILANI, Lívia. South American Regionalism in changing times: Unasur’s Defense Council’s challenges and the crisis of posliberal and post-hegemonic regionalism. Rev. Urug. Cienc. Polít. [online]. 2019, vol.28, n.2, pp.35-60.  Epub Dec 01, 2019. ISSN 0797-9789.  https://doi.org/10.26851/rucp.28.2.2.

This article aims to contribute to the studies on post-hegemonic and posliberal regionalism through an analysis of the South American Defense Council (sadc). The organism’s creation reflected this regionalist movement, since it aimed to promote a South American strategic identity based on cooperative deterrence, the idea of internal cooperation to dissuade external threats. We also claim that the sadc case is useful to understand the limits of this kind of regionalism, once the states domestic politics were discrepant with sadc's projects. After a conceptual discussion, the article contrasts the organism’s initiatives with the decisions of two of its leaders -Argentina and Brazil- in terms of internal use of the armed forces and their relations with the u.s.

Keywords : regionalism; post-hegemonic; defense; Unasur.

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