MERCOSUR and the Challenges of Regional Integration

Doctor, Mahrukh

Abstract

In 1991, the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) was launched with the aim of fostering regional integration among its four original members—Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. MERCOSUR evolved from open regionalism to postliberal regionalism in the course of the first 15 years of the 21st century. The organization has faced several challenges since its inception: internal struggles that result from significant asymmetries between members as well as underlying deficits in the regionalism process and external difficulties in managing MERCOSUR’s relations within the hemisphere and beyond (such as relations with the European Union and China).

Citation

Doctor, M. (2020). MERCOSUR and the Challenges of Regional Integration. In W. R. Thompson (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1739

• Online Publication Date: Sep 28, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Jun 8, 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Book Title: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
• ISBN: 9780190228637
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1739
• Keywords: MERCOSUR; Mercosul; regionalism; regional integration; regional organizations; inter-regionalism; intergovernmentalism; Latin American politics
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3744745
• Contract Date: Mar 26, 2020