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Power and Regionalism in Latin America - The Politics of MERCOSUR (Hardcover)
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Power and Regionalism in Latin America - The Politics of MERCOSUR (Hardcover)
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In Power and Regionalism in Latin America: The Politics of
MERCOSUR, Laura Gomez-Mera examines the erratic patterns of
regional economic cooperation in the Southern Common Market
(MERCOSUR), a political-economic agreement among Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay, Uruguay, and, recently, Venezuela that comprises the
world's fourth-largest regional trade bloc. Despite a promising
start in the early 1990s, MERCOSUR has had a tumultuous and
conflict-ridden history. Yet it has survived, expanding in
membership and institutional scope. What explains its survival,
given a seemingly contradictory mix of conflict and cooperation?
Through detailed empirical analyses of several key trade disputes
between the bloc's two main partners, Argentina and Brazil,
Gomez-Mera proposes an explanation that emphasizes the tension
between and interplay of two sets of factors: power asymmetries
within and beyond the region, and domestic-level politics. Member
states share a common interest in preserving MERCOSUR as a vehicle
for increasing the region's leverage in external negotiations.
Gomez-Mera argues that while external vulnerability and overlapping
power asymmetries have provided strong and consistent incentives
for regional cooperation in the Southern Cone, the impact of these
systemic forces on regional outcomes also has been crucially
mediated by domestic political dynamics in the bloc's two main
partners, Argentina and Brazil. Contrary to conventional wisdom,
however, the unequal distribution of power within the bloc has had
a positive effect on the sustainability of cooperation. Despite
Brazil's reluctance to adopt a more active leadership role in the
process of integration, its offensive strategic interests in the
region have contributed to the durability of institutionalized
collaboration. However, as Gomez-Mera demonstrates, the tension
between Brazil's global and regional power aspirations has also
added significantly to the bloc's ineffectiveness.
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