Abstract
In an international contest where the American superpower relative weakness has allowed new state actors to emerge and modify the ewstern world order, the integration processes such as the ones occurring in South-America can be interpreted as a way ofbecoming independent before the world powers. But until now, the countries efforts to fit in have been unsuccessful. Differences of opinion between regional governments, as well as a lack of real po...
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In an international contest where the American superpower relative weakness has allowed new state actors to emerge and modify the ewstern world order, the integration processes such as the ones occurring in South-America can be interpreted as a way ofbecoming independent before the world powers. But until now, the countries efforts to fit in have been unsuccessful. Differences of opinion between regional governments, as well as a lack of real political will of soverreignty cession to supranational organizations, challenged the feasibility of existing organizations such as Merecosur or Andean Community. However, despite various failures of regional integration in South America, the emerging countries increased power in the current unimultipolar world, wich makes possible a new regionalization process under Brazilian hegemony. This hegemony is actually creating a new geopolitical configuration in South America, through the Unasur. That regional organism reflects the Brazil's desire to integrate itself in the international system in a completely autonomous way by creating, progressively, one on the determining power poles of this new century.
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