A research agenda on transnational regionalization in South America / Uma agenda de estudos sobre a regionalização transnacional na America do Sul

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This doctoral thesis has mapped a research agenda on the processes of transnational regionalization in South America taking for granted the purpose to open a wider discussion about this subject of increasing relevance to the understanding of new spatial determinations and scales of power. The selected agenda of research focused on South America brings into play a series of discussions about new actors, new themes and international scales of analysis in order to demonstrate the main variables that affect cross-border integration and, therefore, define spatial relations and logics of power within and between territories and frontiers in Brazil and South America. This study was written to demonstrate that a fruitful research agenda on transnational regionalization in South America is supposed to take into account geo-strategic studies about diplomatic diffusion of institutional processes, paradiplomatic extraversion of business, as well as studies on the content of geopolitical exploitation of natural resources and the agenda of security and defense in the subcontinent. In the course of this synchronous discussion subsidies are provided for reflection and further debate about the actors and the multifaceted issues that simultaneously affect the process of transnational regionalization in South America through vectors of integration and fragmentation.

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integração regional espaço geografico economic geography south america geografia economica - america do sul regional integration geographical space

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