Reconfiguraciones de poder y políticas de Cooperación Sur-Sur en América Latina en la primera década del siglo XXI

Abstract

The resurgence of South-South Cooperation (SSC) in Latin America during the first decade of the 21st century is linked to the transformations of power and the gradual reconfiguration of the systemic structures of the international order. After a historical-critical review of the dominant theoretical approaches in the discipline of International Relations and Development Studies, this article aims to analyze the "South" unraveling the Eurocentric prism that crosses its analysis in the social sciences and examine its rise in the exercise of the foreign policy of the Latin American countries in three areas: a) economic and financial cooperation, b) regional integration, c) technical cooperation.

The article aims to answer the following research question: why does SSC re-emerge in Latin America, and what spaces, agendas and policies does it prompt during the first decade of the 21st century? The central argument is that SSC brought back “the politics” to question traditional models of development and generated spaces of consensus, institutions and public policies, which reflect the consolidation of a critical mass that reaffirms the aspirations of autonomy and defense of national interest of the countries.