Nuevos Vínculos Y Nuevos Actores En El Proceso De Integración Regional. La Red Mercociudades Como Emergente Institucional
New links and new actors in the process of regional integration. The Red Mercociudades as emergent institution

Summary/Abstract: The work, conceived as a scientific essay, puts the Mercocities Network as an object of study which poses inspired statements or hypothesis, grounded in theoretical and empirical references are resolved from these latest research by the author, allows to analyze the institutional process of that pair and the value placed on the role of municipalities in the regional context. Thus, the essay explains socio-political relations that gave rise to the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), the regional integration process established under the Act of Asuncion on March 26th, 1991 to the present. Various positions led to establish a prosperous and high purposes initial stage, its subsequent decline, and the new perspectives that resumed with other partners. Faced with the continued assertion of a dying Mercosur, the essay offers arguments to collapse this appreciation. Hence new actors, including the Mercociudades, which respond to the „absent sociology” by researcher Sousa Santos, later to return as a way to recognize broader possibilities.

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